I.to put in terror, to frighten, affright, alarm, terrify (class., but perh. not in Cic.): “aliquem verbis,” Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 80: “aliquem morte,” id. Bacch. 4, 8, 44: “pavor territat mentem animi,” id. Ep. 1, 1, 4: “aliquem territare metu,” Caes. B. G. 5, 6: “aliquem supplicio,” id. ib. 7, 63: audacter territas, humiliter placas, * Auct. Her. 4, 20, 28: alias (civitates) territando ... alias cohortando, Caes B. G. 5, 54: “magnas territat urbes,” Verg. A. 4, 187; cf. Plaut. Cas. 2, 5, 5; id. Curc. 4, 4, 12; 5, 3, 35; Ter. And. 4, 4, 22; Caes. B. G. 5, 57; Liv. 8, 28, 3; Stat. Th. 3, 322.
terrĭto , āre, v. freq. a. id.,