I. To thunder down, to thunder.
B. Trop., to thunder forth, express in thundertones, to storm (freq. in Florus): “captis superioribus jugis in subjectos detonuit,” Flor. 1, 17, 5; “of Hannibal's invasion of Italy,” id. 2, 6, 10 al.: “adversus epistolam meam turba patricia detonabit,” Hier. Ep. 47: “haec ubi detonuit,” Sil. 17, 202; “of lofty poetry,” Stat. Silv. 2, 7, 65.—
II. To cease thundering; so only trop., to cease raging: Aeneas nubem belli, dum detonet omnis, sustinet, * Verg. A. 10, 809 (bellantum impetum sustinet, donec deferveat, Serv.): “ira,” Val. Fl. 4, 294: “dicendi vitiosa jactatio,” Quint. 12, 9, 4.
