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Latin	1: exululo	2: vocifico	3: exclamo	4: persono	5: incuso
Greek	1: anaphôneô	2: ololuzô	3: gegôniskô	4: anakrazô	5: sumboaô
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clâmo, âvi, âtum, 1, v. n. and a. [Sanscr. kar-, to celebrate; Gr. kaleô, klêtos; cf.: clarus, classis, nomenclator, concilium].

I. Neutr., to call, cry out, shout aloud, to complain with a loud voice, vociferari (class. and very freq.; mostly of human beings): populus convolat; Tumultuantur, clamant, pugnant de loco, Ter. Hec. prol. alt. 33: dic mihi, Non clamas? non insanis? id. Ad. 4, 7, 9; cf. id. ib. 5, 3, 3; id. Phorm. 4, 3, 59: clamare de pecuniâ, Cic. Verr. 2.5.7.§ 17 al.--Of a vehement bawling before a tribunal: qui quid in dicendo posset, numquam satis attendi: in clamando quidem video eum esse bene robustum atque exercitatum, Cic. Div. in Caecil. 15.48.--In comedy, of snoring: dormit Sceledrus intus? Lu. Non naso quidem: Nam eo magnum clamat, Plaut. Mil. 3.2.10 al.--

b. Transf., of animals and things; of geese: anseres, qui tantummodo clamant, nocere non possunt, Cic. Rosc. Am. 20.57.--Of the chirping of a cricket: (cicada) multo validius clamare occoepit, Phaedr. 3, 16, 7.--Of the roaring of waters, the rustling of trees, etc., Sil. 4, 526; 9, 516; Stat. Th. 10, 94: clamant amnes, freta, nubila silvae, id. ib. 11, 116.-- Also of abstract things (cf. under II. B.): et non ulla meo clamat in ore fides? i. e. does my sincerity never plainly proclaim itself in my voice? Prop. 1, 18, 18.--But esp. freq.,

II. Act., to call or cry aloud to something or some one, to proclaim, declare, to invoke, call upon, etc., = exclamare; constr. with acc. of the person or thing, or a clause as object, in direct and (more freq.) in indirect discourse.

(a). With acc.: e somno pueros clamo, Lucil. ap. Diom. p. 372 P.; so, janitorem, Plaut. As. 2.3.11: comites, Ov. M. 6.106: matrem ore, id. ib. 5.398; cf.: ora clamantia nomen, id. ib. 8.229; 11, 665: morientem nomine, Verg. A. 4.674.--With two accs.: se causam crimenque, Verg. A. 12.600: me deum, Prop. 3 (4), 9, 46: te insanum, Hor. S. 2, 3, 130: aliquem furem, id. Ep. 1, 16, 36; Curt. 4, 16, 15.--With acc. rei: divûm atque hominum fidem, Plaut. Aul. 2.4.20: aquas, Prop. 4 (5), 8, 58: triumphum, Ov. Am. 1, 2, 25: Saturnalia, Liv. 22, 1, 20: pulchre! bene! recte! Hor. A. P. 428.--

(b). With a clause as object, in direct discourse (mostly poet.): ad me omnes clamant: Janua culpa tua est, Cat. 67.14; so Ov. F. 4, 452; Hor. S. 2, 3, 62; id. Ep. 1, 17, 48; 1, 19, 47; id. A. P. 460; Suet. Caes. 82; Sen. Ep. 27, 1 al.--

(g). With a clause as object, in indirect discourse: clamant omnes indignissime Factum esse, Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 11: quid facto esset opus puerperae... illis clamat de viâ, id. And. 3, 2, 11; Cic. Mur. 37.78: solos felices viventes clamat in urbe, Hor. S. 1, 1, 12.--

(d). With final clause: clamare coeperunt, sibi ut haberet hereditatem, Cic. Verr. 2.2.19.§ 47; Dig. 29, 5, 1, § 55: clamans in hostem, ne rex Croesus occideretur, Gell. 5, 9, 2.--

B. Trop., of abstract things, to proclaim, declare: quom mi ipsum nomen ejus Archidemides Clamaret dempturum esse, si quid crederem, Plaut. Bacch. 2.3.51; cf.: eum ipsum (sc. Regulum) clamat virtus beatiorem fuisse quam potantem in rosâ Thorium, Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 65; 4, 19, 55: quae (tabulae) se corruptas atque interlitas esse clamant, id. Verr. 2.2.42.§ 104; Cat. 6.7: quid enim restipulatio clamat? Cic. Rosc. Com. 13.37; id. Cat. 1.8.21; cf. clamito, Il.