HORROR Copy link • HORRORShivering, shuddering, horror (i. e., ubi totum corpus intremit, Cels.). Dread, extreme fear, horror (cold trembling, from fear; Cic.): terror, of anything, alicujus rei. Horror seizes anybody, horror perfundit aliquem (Cic.); horror subit alicujus animum; terror mihi incidit or me invadit. Extreme aversion, aversatio, of anything, alicujus rei (Silver Age): detestatio (of anything, alicujus rei, in Gell.; the connection does not occur in Cic. in this sense): animus aversissimus ab aliquo (a very great horror of anybody): to have a horror of anything, detestari aliquid: to have a horror of anybody, abhorrere aliquem; animo esse aversissimo ab aliquo. Horrible action, res nefanda or infanda: res atrox or nefaria: tragoediae (tragic occurrences; ☞ Cic., Mil., 7, 18). The horrors of war, belli vastatio: to perpetrate and suffer unutterable horrors, facere et pati infanda.