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stŭpor , ōris, m. stupeo,
I.numbness; dulness, insensibility, stupidity, stupor, stupefaction; astonishment, wonder, amazement (class.; “syn. torpor): stupor in corpore,Cic. Tusc. 3, 6, 12: “sensūs stupor,id. Phil. 2, 45, 115: “stupor obstitit lacrimis,Ov. P. 1, 2, 29; cf.: stupor omnium animos tenet. Liv. 9, 2: “oculos stupor urget inertes,Verg. G. 3, 523: “stupor cordis,Cic. Phil. 3, 6, 16: “stupor debilitasque linguae,id. Pis. 1, 1: “tantus te stupor oppressit, ut, etc.,id. Phil. 2, 26, 65; cf.: “cum stupor silentiumque ceteros patrum defixisset,Liv. 6, 40: “stupor omnes et admiratio incessit, unde tam subitum bellum,Just. 22, 6 fin.; 12, 7; Arn. 1, 28; Claud. II. Cons. Stil. 344. —
II. Esp., dulness, stupidity, stolidity: “quae mandata! quā adrogantiā! Quo stupore!Cic. Phil. 8, 8, 24: “stuporem hominis, vel dicam pecudis, attendite ... Sit in verbis tuis hic stupor: quanto in rebus sententiisque major,id. ib. 2, 12, 30: “Quis stupor hic, Menelae, fuit?Ov. A. A. 2, 361. —Poet., for stupidus, a fool, simpleton: “talis iste meus stupor nil videt, nihil audit,Cat. 17, 21; cf.: “tum demum ingemuit corvi deceptus stupor,Phaedr. 1, 13, 12.
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    • Cicero, Philippics, 2.26.65
    • Cicero, Philippics, 3.6.16
    • Cicero, Philippics, 8.8.24
    • Cicero, Against Piso, 1.1
    • Cicero, Philippics, 2.45.115
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 6, 40
    • Vergil, Georgics, 3.523
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 9, 2
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 3.6
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 1.2
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