contāmĭ-nāta

con-tāmĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [from stem tag, tango].

Orig., to bring into contact, touch.

In gen. (very rare):

manus quibus contaminatur,

Tert. Apol. 17; cf.: contaminare, contingere, Gloss. ap. Mai, Auct. Class. VI. p. 518 a.—

To bring into union, to mingle, blend together, unite. So twice in Ter. of the blending of parts of different comedies into one whole:

multas Graecas fabulas,

Ter. Heaut. prol. 17; id. And. prol. 16; cf. upon this Grauert, Analekten. p. 116 sq.—

To deteriorate by mingling, corrupt, contaminate, defile, stain, pollute (something by something; very freq., esp. in the trop. signif., and in Cic.; not in Quint.).

Lit.:

deam Syriam urinā,

Suet. Ner. 56:

lacus (connected with spurcare aquas),

Dig. 47, 11, 1:

spiritum,

Cic. Pis. 9, 20.—Of unnatural vice:

ingenuos,

Petr. 108, 3.—

Trop.:

gaudium aegritudine aliquā,

to mar, efface, Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 4:

se humanis vitiis (joined with se inquinare domesticis vitiis atque flagitiis),

Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 72:

sanguinem suum lege (Canuleia),

Liv. 4, 1, 2:

gentes, i. e. by adoption into a plebeian family,

Cic. Dom. 13, 35:

ordines neglegentiā,

Suet. Vesp. 9:

veritatem aliquo mendacio,

Cic. Sull. 16, 45:

mentem omni scelere,

Liv. 40, 13, 4; cf.:

aliquem scelere,

Tac. A. 1, 35; and:

se sanguine,

Cic. Cat. 1, 12, 29:

sese maleficio,

id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116:

se ipsos ac domos suas nefanda praeda,

Liv. 29, 18, 8 al. —In part. perf.:

contaminati facinore,

Caes. B. G. 7, 43; so,

tot parricidiis,

Cic. Phil. 12, 7, 15:

multis flagitiis,

id. Clu. 35, 97:

omnibus probris,

Suet. Aug. 65; id. Vit. 4:

judicia vitio paucorum (joined with corrupta),

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 21, 70:

verbum assiduo usu,

Gell. 2, 6, 25.—Hence, contāmĭnā-tus, a, um, P. a., stained with guilt, polluted, contaminated, impure, vile, defiled:

se ut consceleratos contaminatosque ab ludis abactos esse,

Liv. 2, 37, 9; cf.:

pars civitatis, velut contaminata,

id. 4, 4, 6:

superstitio,

Cic. Clu. 68, 194 al. —So several times of incontinence, * Hor. C. 1, 37, 9:

flos aetatis,

Suet. Caes. 49:

paene omnibus membris,

id. Ner. 29.— Sup.: homo sceleribus [p. 445] flagitiisque contaminatissimus, Cic. Prov. Cons. 6, 14; id. Dom. 9, 23.—Subst.

contāmĭnāti, ōrum, m., abandoned youths, Tac. A. 15, 37.—

contāmĭ-nāta, ōrum, n., adulterated things:

ut anteponantur... integra contaminatis,

Cic. Top. 18, 69.— Comp. and adv. not in use.

con-tāmĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [from stem tag, tango].

Orig., to bring into contact, touch.

In gen. (very rare):

manus quibus contaminatur,

Tert. Apol. 17; cf.: contaminare, contingere, Gloss. ap. Mai, Auct. Class. VI. p. 518 a.—

To bring into union, to mingle, blend together, unite. So twice in Ter. of the blending of parts of different comedies into one whole:

multas Graecas fabulas,

Ter. Heaut. prol. 17; id. And. prol. 16; cf. upon this Grauert, Analekten. p. 116 sq.—

To deteriorate by mingling, corrupt, contaminate, defile, stain, pollute (something by something; very freq., esp. in the trop. signif., and in Cic.; not in Quint.).

Lit.:

deam Syriam urinā,

Suet. Ner. 56:

lacus (connected with spurcare aquas),

Dig. 47, 11, 1:

spiritum,

Cic. Pis. 9, 20.—Of unnatural vice:

ingenuos,

Petr. 108, 3.—

Trop.:

gaudium aegritudine aliquā,

to mar, efface, Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 4:

se humanis vitiis (joined with se inquinare domesticis vitiis atque flagitiis),

Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 72:

sanguinem suum lege (Canuleia),

Liv. 4, 1, 2:

gentes, i. e. by adoption into a plebeian family,

Cic. Dom. 13, 35:

ordines neglegentiā,

Suet. Vesp. 9:

veritatem aliquo mendacio,

Cic. Sull. 16, 45:

mentem omni scelere,

Liv. 40, 13, 4; cf.:

aliquem scelere,

Tac. A. 1, 35; and:

se sanguine,

Cic. Cat. 1, 12, 29:

sese maleficio,

id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116:

se ipsos ac domos suas nefanda praeda,

Liv. 29, 18, 8 al. —In part. perf.:

contaminati facinore,

Caes. B. G. 7, 43; so,

tot parricidiis,

Cic. Phil. 12, 7, 15:

multis flagitiis,

id. Clu. 35, 97:

omnibus probris,

Suet. Aug. 65; id. Vit. 4:

judicia vitio paucorum (joined with corrupta),

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 21, 70:

verbum assiduo usu,

Gell. 2, 6, 25.—Hence, contāmĭnā-tus, a, um, P. a., stained with guilt, polluted, contaminated, impure, vile, defiled:

se ut consceleratos contaminatosque ab ludis abactos esse,

Liv. 2, 37, 9; cf.:

pars civitatis, velut contaminata,

id. 4, 4, 6:

superstitio,

Cic. Clu. 68, 194 al. —So several times of incontinence, * Hor. C. 1, 37, 9:

flos aetatis,

Suet. Caes. 49:

paene omnibus membris,

id. Ner. 29.— Sup.: homo sceleribus [p. 445] flagitiisque contaminatissimus, Cic. Prov. Cons. 6, 14; id. Dom. 9, 23.—Subst.

contāmĭnāti, ōrum, m., abandoned youths, Tac. A. 15, 37.—

contāmĭ-nāta, ōrum, n., adulterated things:

ut anteponantur... integra contaminatis,

Cic. Top. 18, 69.— Comp. and adv. not in use.

con-tāmĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [from stem tag, tango].

Orig., to bring into contact, touch.

In gen. (very rare):

manus quibus contaminatur,

Tert. Apol. 17; cf.: contaminare, contingere, Gloss. ap. Mai, Auct. Class. VI. p. 518 a.—

To bring into union, to mingle, blend together, unite. So twice in Ter. of the blending of parts of different comedies into one whole:

multas Graecas fabulas,

Ter. Heaut. prol. 17; id. And. prol. 16; cf. upon this Grauert, Analekten. p. 116 sq.—

To deteriorate by mingling, corrupt, contaminate, defile, stain, pollute (something by something; very freq., esp. in the trop. signif., and in Cic.; not in Quint.).

Lit.:

deam Syriam urinā,

Suet. Ner. 56:

lacus (connected with spurcare aquas),

Dig. 47, 11, 1:

spiritum,

Cic. Pis. 9, 20.—Of unnatural vice:

ingenuos,

Petr. 108, 3.—

Trop.:

gaudium aegritudine aliquā,

to mar, efface, Ter. Eun. 3, 5, 4:

se humanis vitiis (joined with se inquinare domesticis vitiis atque flagitiis),

Cic. Tusc. 1, 30, 72:

sanguinem suum lege (Canuleia),

Liv. 4, 1, 2:

gentes, i. e. by adoption into a plebeian family,

Cic. Dom. 13, 35:

ordines neglegentiā,

Suet. Vesp. 9:

veritatem aliquo mendacio,

Cic. Sull. 16, 45:

mentem omni scelere,

Liv. 40, 13, 4; cf.:

aliquem scelere,

Tac. A. 1, 35; and:

se sanguine,

Cic. Cat. 1, 12, 29:

sese maleficio,

id. Rosc. Am. 40, 116:

se ipsos ac domos suas nefanda praeda,

Liv. 29, 18, 8 al. —In part. perf.:

contaminati facinore,

Caes. B. G. 7, 43; so,

tot parricidiis,

Cic. Phil. 12, 7, 15:

multis flagitiis,

id. Clu. 35, 97:

omnibus probris,

Suet. Aug. 65; id. Vit. 4:

judicia vitio paucorum (joined with corrupta),

Cic. Div. in Caecil. 21, 70:

verbum assiduo usu,

Gell. 2, 6, 25.—Hence, contāmĭnā-tus, a, um, P. a., stained with guilt, polluted, contaminated, impure, vile, defiled:

se ut consceleratos contaminatosque ab ludis abactos esse,

Liv. 2, 37, 9; cf.:

pars civitatis, velut contaminata,

id. 4, 4, 6:

superstitio,

Cic. Clu. 68, 194 al. —So several times of incontinence, * Hor. C. 1, 37, 9:

flos aetatis,

Suet. Caes. 49:

paene omnibus membris,

id. Ner. 29.— Sup.: homo sceleribus [p. 445] flagitiisque contaminatissimus, Cic. Prov. Cons. 6, 14; id. Dom. 9, 23.—Subst.

contāmĭnāti, ōrum, m., abandoned youths, Tac. A. 15, 37.—

contāmĭ-nāta, ōrum, n., adulterated things:

ut anteponantur... integra contaminatis,

Cic. Top. 18, 69.— Comp. and adv. not in use.