I.to snore: “noctem totam stertere,” Plaut. As. 5, 2, 22; id. Mil. 3, 2, 7: “stertit noctes et dies,” Ter. Eun. 5, 8, 49; Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 27: “Marcellus ita stertebat, ut ego vicinus audirem,” Cic. 4, 3, 5; id. Ac. 2, 29, 93: “diem totum stertebat,” Hor. S. 1, 3, 18: “qui vigilans stertis,” Lucr. 3, 1048; Pers. 3, 3; 5, 132: “vigilanti stertere naso,” Juv. 1, 57: “altiore stertitur somno,” Amm. 27, 12, 8.—
II. Trop.: “qui stertit aestate,” Vulg. Prov. 10, 5.—P. a. as subst.: stertens , entis, a snorer: “prodi stertentium sonitu,” Plin. 9, 10, 12, § 36.