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sono, ui, itum, 1 (ante-class. collat. form acc. to the 3d conj., sonit, Enn. and Att. ap. Non. 504, 32 sq.; sonunt, Enn. and Att. ib. 505, 11 sq.; Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 863 P.; inf. sonere, Att. ap. Non. 505; Lucr. 3, 156; part. fut. sonaturum, Hor. S. 1, 4, 44; perf. sonaverint, Tert. ad Scap. 3; gen. plur. sonantum, Cat. 34.12), v. n. and a. [Sanscr. svan-, to sound; cf. O. H. Germ. svana; Engl. swan].

I. Neutr., to make a noise, to sound, resound: aes sonit, the trumpet sounds, Enn. ap. Non. 504, 33 (Trag. v. 213 Vahl.): plectra, Prop. 4 (5), 7, 62: tympana, * Caes. B. C. 3, 105, 4 et saep.: cujanam vox prope me sonat? Plaut. Bacch. 4.9.55; id. Ps. 2.4.11; id. Rud. 1.4.10; id. Trin. 1.2.7: hic mare sonat, id. Rud. 1.3.23; cf.: mare, silvae Aquilone, Hor. Epod. 13, 3: omne sonabat arbustum fremitu silvaï frondosaï, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 196 Vahl.): clamore viri, stridore rudentes, Ov. M. 11.495: omnia passim mulierum puerorumque ... ploratibus, Liv. 29, 17 et saep.: (hirundo) circum Stagna sonat, Verg. A. 12.477; cf. Mart. 14, 223: saeva sonare Verbera, Verg. A. 6.557: classica sonant, id. ib. 7.637: displosa sonat vesica, Hor. S. 1, 8, 46: fletus rixaeque sonant, Tib. 2, 4, 37: natura fert, ut extrema ex alterâ parte graviter, ex alterâ autem acute sonent, Cic. Rep. 6, 18, 18: dicta non sonant, do not chink (i. e. are not money), Plaut. Ps. 1.3.74.--Impers. pass.: jubet tibias agere: sonatur, App. M. 5, p. 165.--

II. Act., to sound, utter, give utterance to, speak, call, cry out, sing, pour forth (syn.: edo, eloquor, cano): homines inconditis vocibus inchoatum quiddam et confusum sonantes, uttering, pronouncing, Cic. Rep. 3, 2, 3: sonare subagreste quiddam, to speak, id. Brut. 74, 259: pingue quiddam, id. Arch. 10.26; cf.: (Sibylla) nec mortale sonans, Verg. A. 6.50: illa sonat raucum, Ov. A. A. 3, 289; cf.: nec vox hominem sonat, does not sound like that of a human being, Verg. A. 1.328: tale sonat populus, calls, cries out, Ov. M. 15.606: exululatque Evoeque sonat, id. ib. 6.597; 4, 523: atavos et avorum antiqua sonans Nomina, boasting of, vaunting (syn.: crepans, jactans), Verg. A. 12.529; cf.: sonant te voce minores, Sil. 2, 491: ut haec duo (honestas et utilitas) verbo inter se discrepare, re unum sonare videantur, to signify (syn.: significare, indicare), Cic. Off. 3, 21, 83; cf.: quâ deterius nec Ille sonat, Juv. 3, 91: Epicurum non intellegere interdum, quid sonet haec vox voluptatis, id est, quae res huic voci subiciatur, Cic. Fin. 2, 2, 6: furem sonuere juvenci, i. e. they betrayed him by their lowings, Prop. 4 (5), 9, 13: Pythius in longâ carmina veste sonat, sings, pours forth, accompanies on the lyre, id. 2, 31 (3, 29), 16; cf.: sonante mixtum tibiis carmen lyra, Hor. Epod. 9, 5: te sonantem ... dura fugae mala, id. C. 2.13.26: te carmina nostra sonabunt, shall sing of, i. e. shall celebrate, praise, extol, Ov. M. 10.205; so, Germanas acies, Daca proelia, Stat. S. 4, 2, 66: acta viri laudesque, Nemes. Ecl. 1, 26.-- Pass.: sive mendaci lyrâ Voles sonari, Hor. Epod. 17, 40; cf.: magno nobis ore sonandus eris, Ov. A. A. 1, 206.--Hence, so-nans, antis, P. a., noisy, sounding, sonorous (very rare): meatus animae gravior et sonantior, Plin. Ep. 6, 16, 13: quod est sonantius et elatius, id. ib. 7, 12, 4.