frĕmo, ŭi, ĭtum, 3, v. n. and a. [cf. βρέμω, βρόμος, βροντή].
1 Neutr. , to make a low roaring , to roar , resound , to growl , murmur , rage , snort , howl (class.; syn.: frendo, strideo, strepo, crepo): (ventus ibi) Speluncas inter magnas fremit ante tumultu, Lucr. 6, 581; cf. Verg. A. 1, 56: venti immani turbine, Ov. Tr. 1, 2, 25: mare, Val. Fl. 2, 646; cf.: Ister tumidā aquā, id. 6, 329: montes undaeque, Stat. Th. 12, 654: saxa concita murali tormento, whiz , Verg. A. 12, 922: viae laetitiā ludisque plausuque, resound , id. ib. 9, 717: agri festis ululatibus, Ov. M. 3, 528: irritata canum cum primum immane Molossūm Mollia ricta fremunt, Lucr. 5, 1064: leo ore cruento, Verg. A. 9, 341; Plin. 8, 16, 19, § 48; cf. Varr. L. L. 7, § 104 Müll.: equus, neighs , Verg. A. 11, 496; 599; Hor. C. 4, 14, 23; id. Epod. 9, 17: lupus ad caulas, Verg. A. 9, 60: tigres, Val. Fl. 2, 260: fremant omnes licet, dicam quod sentio, to mutter , grumble , Cic. de Or. 1, 44, 195: cum in basilica Julia ... omnia clamoribus fremerent, Quint. 12, 5, 6: omnes magno circum clamore fremebant, Verg. A. 6, 175: cunctique fremebant Caelicolae assensu vario, id. ib. 10, 96: cuncti simul ore fremebant Dardanidae, id. ib. 1, 559; 5, 555: animisque fremens, id. ib. 12, 371; cf.: stabat acerba fremens Aeneas, id. ib. 12, 398: patres, erecti gaudio, fremunt, Liv. 6, 6, 17: rumor de tibicine Fremit in theatro, Phaedr. 5, 7, 21.—
II Act. , to murmur , grumble , growl , rage at or after any thing, to complain loudly.
α With acc.: dixerat haec unoque omnes eadem ore fremebant, Verg. A. 11, 132: arma amens fremit; arma toro tectisque requirit, Saevit amor ferri, id. ib. 7, 460: si plebs fremere imperia coepisset, i. e. to murmur at , Cass. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 1, 56.—
β With an object-clause : jam vero Arrius consulatum sibi ereptum fremit, Cic. Att. 2, 7,3: Pedum expugnandum ac delendum senatus fremit, Liv. 8, 13, 1: praetorianus miles, non virtute se sed proditione victum fremebat, Tac. H. 2, 44: (M. Bruti) epistolae frementes, fibulas tribunicias ex auro geri, id. ib. 4, 35; Plin. 33, 3, 12, § 39.