clangor

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

clangor, ōris, m. [clango], a sound, clang, noise (mostly poet. and in Aug. prose).

I Of wind instruments: tubarum, Verg. A. 2, 313; cf. id. ib. 8, 526; 11, 192; Luc. 1, 237; Sil. 2, 19; Stat. Th. 3, 651; Flor. 4, 2, 67; cf. Ov. M. 3, 707.—

II Of birds (in crying or flying). clangorem fundere, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 10, 24: tremulo clangore volare, id. poët. Div. 2, 30, 63; Ov. M. 12, 528; 13, 611: cum magno clangore volitare, Liv. 1, 34, 8; 5, 47, 4; Col. 8, 13, 2; Plin. 18, 35, 87, § 363 sq.; 10, 8, 10, § 23 al.; Flor. 1, 13, 15; * Suet. Dom. 6 al.—In plur., Verg. A. 3, 226.—

III Of dogs, a barking , baying , Grat. Cyn. 186.

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