I.inf. pres. pass. frenarier, Prud. Psych. 191), v. a. frenum, to furnish with a bridle, to bridle (mostly in poets).
I. Lit.: “frenati equi,” Hirt. B. G. 8, 15, 4: “equos,” Verg. A. 5, 554; Hor. Ep. 1, 15, 13; cf. Liv. 21, 27: “ora cervi capistris,” Ov. M. 10, 125: “colla draconum (Medea),” id. ib. 7, 220; cf. “dracones,” id. Tr. 3, 8, 3: “frenato delphine sedens Thetis,” id. M. 11, 237; cf.: “vecta est frenato pisce Thetis,” Tib. 1, 5, 46: frenata acies, i. e. the cavalry (opp. pedestris), Sil. 11, 266.—
II. Transf., in gen., to bridle, curb, restrain, check (syn.: coerceo, comprimo, etc.).
A. Prop.: “(Aeolus ventos) Imperio premit ac vinclis et carcere frenat,” Verg. A. 1, 54: “agmina ductor,” Sil. 9, 418: cum tristis hiems glacie cursus frenaret aquarum, Verg. G. 4, 136: “alvum frenat brassica,” Ser. Samm. 29: “tussim medicamine,” id. 17.—
B. Trop., to bridle, curb, check, restrain, govern: “frenatam tot malis linguam resolvimus,” Plin. Pan. 66, 5: “qui eas (voluptates) sua temperantia frenavit ac domuit,” Liv. 30, 14, 7: “ejus (Clodii) furores, quos nullis jam legibus, nullis judiciis frenare poteramus,” Cic. Mil. 28, 77: “spes avidas,” Sil. 10, 341: “impetum (scribendi),” Phaedr. 4, 25, 7: “dolores corde,” to shut up, Sil. 8, 290: “gentes superbas justitiā (Dido),” Verg. A. 1, 523; cf.: “Aemoniam (Pelias),” Val. Fl. 1, 22: “ne quis temere frenari eos dicere posset, quominus de eo libere querantur,” Liv. 26, 29, 7.
