wonder (subs.) Copy link Outline I. Astonishment1. mīrātio2. admīrātio (more used than miratio3. stŭpor (blank amazement)II. The thing wondered at, a prodigy, a miracle.1. mīrācŭlum2. mīrum • wonder (subs.): I. Astonishment: 1. mīrātio: to excite w., mirationem facere, Cic. Div. 2, 22, 49. 2. admīrātio (more used than miratio: both most frequently express w. at something grand and admirable): to feel w., admiratione affici, Cic. Off. 2, 10, 37: astounded with w., admiratione obstupefacti, id. Deiot. 12, 34: w. at a fluent and wise speaker, adm. copiose sapienterque dicentis, id. Off. 2, 14: the consul was seized with w. that they did not begin the fight, consulem adm. incessit quod non pugnam inirent, Liv. 7, 34. 3. stŭpor (blank amazement): when all the others were rooted to the spot in w. and silence, quum stupor silentiumque ceteros defixisset, Liv. 6, 40: v. astonishment, amazement. II. The thing wondered at, a prodigy, a miracle. 1. mīrācŭlum: the portents and w.s of dreaming philosophers, portenta et miracula philosophorum somniantium, Cic. N. D. 1, 8, 18: the seven w.s of the world, *septem miracula mundi: v. miracle, prodigy. 2. mīrum: you tell of great w.s, nimia mira memoras, Pl. Am. 5, 1, 53. Phr.: a w. (of a person), homo mirificus, Cic. Att. 4, 11, 2: when lost in w. I was gazing on this, haec cum intuerer stupens, Cic. Rep. 6., 18, 18: what w. is it if old men are at times weak? quid mirum in senibus si infirmi sunt aliquando? Cic. de Sen. 11, 35: no wonder: non mirum est, non est quod miremur, Cic.: also by quippe, scilicet, nempe; no w. for he was a kindly man, quippe benignus erat, Hor. S. 1, 2, 4 (e Kr.).