(v. a.P. a.) : vībro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n. cf. Sanscr. vip, to tremble.
* Act., to set in tremulous motion, to move rapidly to and fro, to brandish, shake, agitate (class.; syn.: quatio, ventilo).
* Lit.: hastas ante pugnam,Cic. de Or. 2, 80, 325: hastam,id. Off. 2, 8, 29: flamina vestes,to cause to flutter,Ov. M. 1, 528: faces,Claud. Epith. 97: multifidas linguas (draco),Val. Fl. 1, 61: tremor vibrat ossa,makes tremble,Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 152: viscera vibrantur (equitando),are shaken about,Tac. A. 12, 51: impositus scuto more gentis et sustinentium umeris vibratus, dux eligitur,id. H. 4, 15: digitis vibratis jactare sententias,Quint. 11, 3, 120: thyrsum manu,Sen. Oedip. 420: serpens squalidum crista caput vibrans,id. Herc. Oet. 1254.—Poet.: vibrata flammis aequora,i. e. glimmering, sparkling,Val. Fl. 8, 306: crines vibrati,i. e. curled, frizzled,Verg. A. 12, 100; Plin. 2, 78, 80, § 189.— Mid.: sic mea vibrari pallentia membra videres,Ov. H. 11, 77.
* Neutr., to be in tremulous motion, etc.
* Trop.
* Of language, to fling, hurl, launch: truces vibrare iambos,Cat. 36, 5; cf. 2. vibratus, II.
* To threaten: tela undique mortem vibrantia,Amm. 31, 13, 2.
* Lit.
* In gen., to shake, quiver, vibrate, tremble: linguā vibrante (serpentis),Lucr. 3, 657; Ov. M. 3, 34: terrae motus non simplici modo quatitur, sed tremit vibratque,Plin. 2, 80, 82, § 194.
* Trop., of language: cujus (Demosthenis) non tam vibrarent fulmina illa, nisi numeris contorta ferrentur,would not have been hurled with such vigor,Cic. Or. 70, 234; cf.: oratio incitata et vibrans,id. Brut. 95, 326: sententiae,Quint. 10, 1, 60; 11, 3, 120. —Hence, vĭbrātus, a, um, P. a., impetuous, forcible: iambus flammis fulminis vibratior,Aus. Ep. 21, 5.
* To glimmer, glitter, gleam, scintillate, etc.: mare, quā a sole collucet, albescit et vibrat,Cic. Ac. 2, 33, 105: signa, Flor. 3, 11: in tremulo vibrant incendia ponto,Sil. 2, 664; Val. Fl. 2, 583; 2, 342; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 2.—Of bright weapons: juvenes Tela tenent dextrā lato vibrantia ferro,Ov. M. 8, 342: gladius,Verg. A. 9, 769; cf.: clipeum Vibranti medium cuspis transverberat ictu,id. ib. 10, 484.