astupeo

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

a-stŭpĕo (ads-, Merk.), ēre, v. n.,

to be amazed at or on account of , to be astonished at (rare, and mostly poet.; perh. not before the Aug. per.): Adstupet ipse sibi, Ov. M. 3, 418: Cui fida manus proceresque socerque Adstupet oranti, Stat. Th. 3, 406: divitiis, Sen. Tranq. Vit. 1, 8; Sid. Ep. 5, 5.—Of inanimate things: nemus adstupet, Stat. Th. 2, 13.

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