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torpĕo , ēre, v. n. Sanscr. root tarp-, to sate; Gr. τέρπω,
I.to be stiff, numb, motionless, inactive, torpid, sluggish, etc. (syn.: langueo, languesco, stupeo, rigeo).
B. Transf., of inanim. things, to be still, motionless, sluggish: “torpentes lacus,Stat. Th. 9, 452: “amnis,id. ib. 4, 172: “locus depressus hieme pruinis torpet,Col. 1, 4, 10: “Orpheus tacuit torpente lyrā,Sen. Med. 348: “antra Musarum longo torpentia somno,Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, praef. 51; 1, 262.—
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (24):
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 25.4
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 13.541
    • Plautus, Trinummus, 4.3
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 9.499
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.124
    • Horace, Satires, 2.7.95
    • Plautus, Amphitruo, 1.1
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 80
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 24.13
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 28, 29.11
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 1, 41.3
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 21, 55
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 21, 58
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 6, 23.7
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 21, 56
    • Seneca, Medea, 348
    • Cicero, de Natura Deorum, 1.37
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 3.76
    • Ovid, Ex Ponto, 1.10
    • Statius, Thebias, 9
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 1.4.10
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.10.7
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.14.13
    • Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 4.3.16
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