tremble Copy link Outline 1. trĕmo, ui, 32. văcillo, 1 (to rock to and fro)3. expr. by mŏveo, trĕmĕfăcio (to cause to t.) • tremble: 1. trĕmo, ui, 3: to t. and turn pale, t. et exalbescere, Cic. Ac. 2, 15, 48: I t. and shudder all over, totus tremo horreoque, Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 4: poet. often with acc. of closer definition: to t. in every limb, t. artus, Virg. G. 3, 84. With direct acc.: to t. at the dictator's axes, dictatoris secures t., Liv. 22, 27: Ov.: Virg. Inceptive, tremisco, 3 (to begin to t.): Virg.: Ov. Comps.: (1) contrĕmo, 3 (strengthened from simple verb: rare): Lucr. Oftener, contremisco, tremui, 3: to (begin to) t. in every limb, omnibus artubus c., Cic. de Or. 1, 26, 121: Virg. With direct acc., to t. at danger, periculum c., Hor. Od. 2, 12, 8. (2) intrĕmo, 3: (same constrr.): Cels.: Virg. Also intremisco, 3: Plin. 2. văcillo, 1 (to rock to and fro): the whole earth t.s (rocks) under foot, sub pedibus terra v., Lucr. 5, 1235: t.ing (unsteady) characters, vacillantes literulae, Cic. Fam. 16, 15. 3. expr. by mŏveo, trĕmĕfăcio (to cause to t.): he caused earth, sea, and heaven to t., terram, mare, sidera movit, Ov. M. 1, 180 (so, the earth t.d, terra mota est): he made all Olympus t. with his nod, totum nutu tremefecit Olympum, Virg. Aen. 10, 115. (Horreo, to shudder [q. v.]: trepidare, to be agitated; esp. with fear.)