latratus Latin · revision 33008

− It is the barking or baying of dogs: Virgil tells the huntsman to rouse boars with barking, Ovid has barks uttered, and Juvenal sleep broken by barking.^(Lewis & Short 1879) Transferred, it is shouting or bawling, as the unusual bawling in the forum in Valerius Maximus, and the roaring of the sea.^(OLD 2012) Lewis & Short note that it is not found before Augustus except in that line of Accius, which the OLD gives.^(Lewis & Short 1879)^(OLD 2012)