I. A loud call, a shout, cry; of men and (poet.) of animals (very freq. in all periods and species of composition): “facere clamorem,” Plaut. Bacch. 4, 8, 33: “tollere,” id. Curc. 2, 2, 27; Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94; id. Q. Fr. 2, 1. 3; Liv. 3, 28, 2; Quint. 5, 10, 46; Verg. A. 3, 672 al.: “tollere in caelum,” id. ib. 11, 745: “ad aethera,” id. ib. 2, 338; cf.: “clamorem mittere ad sidera,” Stat. Th. 12, 521: “edere,” Cic. Div. 2, 23, 50: “profundere,” id. Fl. 6, 15: “compesce,” Hor. C. 2, 20, 23: “clamorem audire,” Ter. Hec. 3, 1, 37: “magno clamore concurritur,” Sall. J. 53, 2: “clamor virūm,” Verg. A. 1, 87: “impium Lenite clamorem,” Hor. C. 1, 27, 7: “ingens clamor,” Verg. A. 12, 268: “laetus,” id. ib. 3, 524: “subitus,” id. ib. 11, 609: “nauticus,” id. ib. 3, 128: “dare clamorem,” id. ib. 3, 566: “it clamor caelo,” id. ib. 5, 451 al. —
B. In partic., a friendly call, acclamation, applause: “clamor secundus,” Verg. A. 5, 491: “dixi de te tanto clamore consensuque populi,” Cic. Fam. 12, 7, 1: “clamore coronae,” Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 53; “militum gaudentium,” Tac. H. 1, 62 fin. al.—In plur., Cic. de Or. 1, 33, 152; id. Brut. 95, 326; id. Att. 1, 14, 4; Plin. Pan. 73, 1; 2, 6; Phaedr. 5, 5, 28; Quint. 12, 6, 4.—
2. A hostile call, clamor, shout: clamoribus maximis judices corripuerunt, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 2, 1; so Cic. Q. Fr. 2, 1, 3; Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 5, § 12 al.—
II. Poet., of animals, a cry: “gruum,” Lucr. 4, 182; 4, 911: “mergorum,” Verg. G. 1, 362: “apum,” id. ib. 4, 76 al.—Of things, noise, sound, din: “nubis,” Lucr. 6, 147: “ter scopuli clamorem inter cava saxa dedere,” Verg. A. 3, 566: “montium silvaeque,” Hor. C. 3, 29, 39.
