I.gen. plur. horriferum, Pac. ap. Cic. Or. 46, 155), adj. horror-fero, that brings trembling or terror, terrible, dreadful, horrible, horrific (poet.): unde horrifer Aquiloni' stridor gelidas molitur nives, Att. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 68: “Boreas,” Ov. M. 1, 65; 15, 471: “axis,” Val. Fl. 5, 518: “nix,” id. 5, 307: prodigium horriferum, Pac. ap. Cic. Or. 46, 155: “aestus (Tartari),” Lucr. 3, 1012: Aegis (= δεινή, Hom.), Verg. A. 8, 435: “Erinys,” Ov. M. 1, 725: “voces,” Lucr. 5, 996.
horrĭfer , ĕra, ĕrum (archaic