mōtus ūs, m 1 MV-, a moving, motion: caeli signorumque motūs: motūs astrorum ignoro, Iu.: futuri, departure, V.: crebri terrae, i. e. earthquakes, Cu.

—Artistic movement, gesticulation, dancing: corporis: haud indecoros motūs more Tusco dabant, gesticulated, L.: Ionici, dances, H.: Cereri dare motūs, dance, V.: palaestrici, of wrestlers: celeri motu et difficili uti, gestures (of orators): instabilem motum habere, Cs.

—Fig., a movement, change: motūs fortunae, Cs.

—An impulse, emotion, affection, passion, agitation, disturbance, inspiration: motūs animorum duplices sunt: dulcem motum adferre sensibus, sensation: divino concita motu, O.

—A political movement, sudden rising, tumult, commotion: in Apuliā motus erat, S.: repentini Galliae motūs, Cs.: Catilinae: servilis, insurrection, L.: in re p., change: civicus, H.