I.to fear, dread any thing; to be afraid, terrified, frightened (class.; syn.: metuo, timeo, vereor, trepido, tremo, paveo).
(α).
With acc.: “illum,” Plaut. Capt. 4, 4, 5: “et illud paveo et hoc formido,” id. Cist. 2, 1, 58: “malum (shortly after: metuo malum),” id. Am. prol. 27: “ipse se cruciat omniaque formidat,” Cic. Fin. 2, 16, 53: “illius iracundiam formidant,” id. Att. 8, 16, 2: ἀπότευγμα formido et timeo, ne, etc., id. Q. Fr. 3, 2, 2: “cum formidet te mulier,” Hor. S. 2, 7, 65: “fures,” id. ib. 1, 1, 77: “acumen judicis,” id. A. P. 364: “nocturnos tepores,” id. Ep. 1, 18, 93. —In pass.: “hic classe formidatus,” Hor. C. 3, 6, 15: “formidata Parthis Roma,” id. Ep. 2, 1, 256: “nautis formidatus Apollo (i. e. the temple of Apollo on the Leucadian promontory),” Verg. A. 3, 275; cf.: “nec formidatis auxiliatur aquis,” i. e. the hydrophobia, Ov. P. 1, 3, 24: “quo etiam satietas formidanda est magis,” Cic. Or. 63, 213.—
(β).
With inf.: “si isti formidas credere,” Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 82; cf.: “ad haec ego naribus uti Formido,” Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 46: “meus formidat animus, nostrum tam diu ibi sedere filium,” Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 4.—
(γ).
With ut or ne: “aliquem non formido, ut, etc.,” Vop. Tac. 2, § 2: “formido miser, ne, etc.,” Plaut. As. 2, 4, 55.—
(δ).
With dat.: auro formidat Euclio: abstrudit foris, fears for the gold, Plaut. Aul. argum. 6.—（ε) With si: “male formido, si hera mea sciat tam socordem esse quam sum,” Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 4.—（ζ) Absol.: “intus paveo et foris formido,” Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 20: “ne formida,” id. Mil. 4, 2, 20; id. As. 2, 4, 56; 3, 3, 48; id. Mil. 3, 3, 20: neque prius desinam formidare, quam tetigisse te Italiam audiero, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 10, 1.
