Meaning of cachinnus | Babel Free

Definitions

1. loud laughter, horselaugh, guffaw
   declension-2, masculine
2. flashing, roaring (of the sea)
   declension-2, masculine, poetic

Equivalents

Examples

“Salvē, ō venusta Sirmiō, atque erō gaude gaudente; vōsque, ō Lȳdiae lacūs undae,”

Greetings, lovely Sirmio, and rejoice for your master rejoicing; and you, oh waves of the Lydian lake, laugh whatever there is at home for laughter.

“Historiam in adulēscentia hortante T. Līviō, Sulpiciō vērō Flāvō etiam adiuvante, scrībere adgressus est. Et cum prīmum frequentī auditōriō commīsisset, aegrē perlēgit refrīgerātus saepe ā sēmet ipsō. Nam cum initiō recitātiōnis dēfrāctīs complūribus subsellīs obēsitāte cuiusdam rīsus exortus esset, nē sēdātō quidem tumultū temperāre potuit, quīn ex intervāllō subinde factī reminīscerētur cachinnōsque revocāret.”

In his youth he undertook to write a history, urged by Livy and helped by Sulpicius Flavus. And when he first called together a numerous auditory, he read it poorly and often interrupted by no one but himself. For when, at the beginning of the recitation, laughter was roused by more benches broken by somebody's fatness, not even with the tumult sedated could he calm down, but from time to time remembered the event and brought laughter back.

“Hīc, quālis flātū placidum mare mātūtīnō horrificāns Zephyrus prōclīvās incitat undās aurōra exoriente vagī sub līmina sōlis, quae tardē prīmum clēmentī flāmine pulsae prōcēdunt, leviterque sonant plangōre cachinnī, post ventō crēscente magis magis incrēbēscunt purpureāque procul nantēs ab lūce refulgent, sīc tum vestibulī linquentēs rēgia tēcta ad sē quisque vagō passim pede discēdēbant. 1894 translation by Sir Richard Francis Burton Even as Zephyrus' breath, seas couching placid at dawn-tide, Roughens, then stings and spurs the wavelets slantingly fretted— Rising Aurora the while 'neath Sol the wanderer's threshold— Tardy at first they flow by the clement breathing of breezes Urged, and echo the shores with soft-toned ripples of laughter, But as the winds wax high so waves wax higher and higher, Flashing and floating afar to outswim morn's purpurine splendours,—”

So did the crowd fare forth, the royal vestibule leaving, And to their house each wight with vaguing paces departed.

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