obstipesco
Τοὺς δούλους ἔταξεν ὡρισμένου νομίσματος ὁμιλεῖν ταῖς θεραπαινίσιν → He arranged for his male slaves to have sex with female slaves at a fixed price (Plutarch, Life of Cato the Elder 21.2)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
ob-stĭpesco: and ob-stŭpesco, pŭi, 3,
I v. inch. n. and a., to become senseless, lose feeling; to be stupefied, benumbed (syn.: obtorpesco; class.).
I Lit.: apes obstupescunt potantes, Varr. R. R. 3, 16: corpus, Plin. 36, 7, 11, § 56.—
II Trop., to be astonished, astounded, amazed, to be struck with amazement: quid hic, malum, adstans obstipuisti, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 51: ob haec beneficia, quibus illi obstupescunt, Cic. Att. 5, 21, 7: ejus aspectu cum obstupuisset bubulcus, id. Div. 2, 23, 50: visu Aeneas, Verg. A. 5, 90: obstupuerunt stupore magno, Vulg. Marc. 5, 42 et saep.—
(b) With acc., to wonder or be astonished at any thing (post-class.), Cassiod. Var. 2, 39.
