1. Neutr., to make a low roaring, to roar, resound, to growl, murmur, rage, snort, howl (class.; “syn.: frendo, strideo, strepo, crepo): (ventus ibi) Speluncas inter magnas fremit ante tumultu,” Lucr. 6, 581; cf. Verg. A. 1, 56: “venti immani turbine,” Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 25: “mare,” Val. Fl. 2, 646; cf.: “Ister tumidā aquā,” id. 6, 329: “montes undaeque,” Stat. Th. 12, 654: “saxa concita murali tormento,” whiz, Verg. A. 12, 922: “viae laetitiā ludisque plausuque,” resound, id. ib. 9, 717: “agri festis ululatibus,” Ov. M. 3, 528: “irritata canum cum primum immane Molossūm Mollia ricta fremunt,” Lucr. 5, 1064: “leo ore cruento,” Verg. A. 9, 341; Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 48; cf. Varr. L. L. 7, § 104 Müll.: “equus,” neighs, Verg. A. 11, 496; 599; Hor. C. 4, 14, 23; id. Epod. 9, 17: “lupus ad caulas,” Verg. A. 9, 60: “tigres,” Val. Fl. 2, 260: “fremant omnes licet, dicam quod sentio,” to mutter, grumble, Cic. de Or. 1, 44, 195: “cum in basilica Julia ... omnia clamoribus fremerent,” Quint. 12, 5, 6: “omnes magno circum clamore fremebant,” Verg. A. 6, 175: “cunctique fremebant Caelicolae assensu vario,” id. ib. 10, 96: “cuncti simul ore fremebant Dardanidae,” id. ib. 1, 559; “5, 555: animisque fremens,” id. ib. 12, 371; cf.: “stabat acerba fremens Aeneas,” id. ib. 12, 398: “patres, erecti gaudio, fremunt,” Liv. 6, 6, 17: rumor de tibicine Fremit in theatro, Phaedr. 5, 7, 21.—
II. Act., to murmur, grumble, growl, rage at or after any thing, to complain loudly.
(α).
With acc.: “dixerat haec unoque omnes eadem ore fremebant,” Verg. A. 11, 132: arma amens fremit; “arma toro tectisque requirit, Saevit amor ferri,” id. ib. 7, 460: si plebs fremere imperia coepisset, i. e. to murmur at, Cass. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 56.—
(β).
With an object-clause: “jam vero Arrius consulatum sibi ereptum fremit,” Cic. Att. 2, 7,3: “Pedum expugnandum ac delendum senatus fremit,” Liv. 8, 13, 1: “praetorianus miles, non virtute se sed proditione victum fremebat,” Tac. H. 2, 44: “(M. Bruti) epistolae frementes, fibulas tribunicias ex auro geri,” id. ib. 4, 35; Plin. 33, 3, 12, § 39.
