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răbĭes , em, e (
I.gen. rabies, Lucr. 4, 1083; the other cases do not occur), f. rabio.
I. Lit., rage, madness (cf.: furor, insania).
1. Of dogs, Col. 7, 12, 14; Plin. 7, 15, 13, § 64; 29, 5, 32, § 99.—
2. Of other animals, Col. 6, 35; Plin. 8, 18, 26, § 68: “ursina,” id. 8, 36, 54, § 130.—
3. Of men, madness, frenzy, Plin. 7, prooem. fin. 1, § 5; Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 26; cf.: contactos eo scelere velut injectā rabie ad arma ituros, Liv. 21, 48, 4.—
II. Trop., of any violent emotion, rage, anger, fury, fierceness, eagerness: “Hecubam putant propter animi acerbitatem quandam et rabiem fingi in canem esse conversam,” Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63: “sine rabie,” id. ib. 4, 24, 53; Tac. H. 1, 63: “Archilochum proprio rabies armavit iambo,” Hor. A. P. 79; cf. id. Ep. 2, 1, 149: “non dico horrendam rabiem,” id. S. 2, 3, 323; Vell. 2, 64, 2: “civica,” fierce civil war, Hor. C. 3, 24, 26; cf. Tac. H. 2, 38; 5, 25; id. A. 1, 31; 39: “hostilis,” Liv. 29, 8 fin.: “edendi,” Verg. A. 9, 64. — Of the madness of love. Ter. Eun. 2, 3, 10; Lucr. 4, 1079; Hor. Epod. 12, 9. — “Of the Sibyl's inspiration,” Verg. A. 6, 49. —
b. Of things: “rabies fatalis temporis,” Liv. 28, 34: “ventorum,” Ov. M. 5, 7; cf. “Noti,” Hor. C. 1, 3, 14: “caelique marisque,” Verg. A. 5, 802: “pelagi,” Sil. 2, 290: “Canis,” the fierce heat of the dogstar, Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 16: “ventris,” i. e. ravenous hunger, voracity, Verg. A. 2, 357; Sil. 2, 472.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5.7
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 2.357
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 5.802
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.49
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 9.64
    • Horace, Satires, 2.3.323
    • Horace, Ars Poetica, 79
    • Tacitus, Annales, 1.31
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 1.63
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 2.38
    • Plautus, Captivi, 3.4
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.1079
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 4.1083
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 7
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 8.68
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 7.64
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 28, 34
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 21, 48
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 29, 8
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 3.26
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 6.35
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