to corrode

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ĕdo, ēdi, ēsum, 3 ( sup.:

esum,

Plaut. Curc. 2, 1, 13; id. Men. 3, 1, 11; id. Stich. 1, 3, 28:

esu,

id. Ps. 3, 2, 35.—The contr. forms es, est, estis, etc., are very freq. in prose and poetry:

est,

Verg. A. 4, 66; 5, 683; Hor. S. 2, 2, 57:

esset,

id. ib. 2, 6, 89; Verg. G. 1, 151:

esse,

Quint. 11, 3, 136; Juv. 15, 102:

esto,

Cato R. R. 156, 1.—Hence, also in the pass.:

estur,

Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 78; id. Poen. 4, 2, 13; Cels. 27, 3; Ov. Pont. 1, 1, 69; and:

essetur,

Varr. L. L. 5, § 106 Müll.—Archaic forms of the subj. praes.:

edim,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 16; id. Trin. 2, 4, 73; 74; Caecil. and Pompon. ap. Non. 507, 7:

edis,

Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 45; id. Trin. 2, 4, 72:

edit,

Cato R. R. 1, 56, 6; 1, 57, 9 sq.; Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 1; 3; id. Aul. 4, 6, 6; id. Poen. prol. 9; Hor. Epod. 3, 3; id. S. 2, 8, 90:

edimus,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 34:

editis, Nov. ap. Non. l. l.: edint,

Cic. Fin. 2, 7, 22), v. a. [Sanscr. ad-mi, eat; Gr. ed-ô, esthiô; Lat. edax, esca, esurio, etc.; cf. also Gr. odous, odont- Aeol. plur. edontes, dens], to eat (for syn. cf.: comedo, vescor, pascor, devoro, haurio, mando, ceno, epulor).

Lit.: ille ipse astat, quando edit, Naev. ap. Prisc. p. 893; cf.

so uncontr.,

Cic. Att. 13, 52:

miserrimus est, qui cum esse cupit, quod edit non habet,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 1, 3:

ut de symbolis essemus,

Ter. Eun. 3, 4, 2:

mergi eos (sc. pullos) in aquam jussit, ut biberent, quoniam esse nollent,

Cic. N. D. 2, 3, 7 et saep.—

Prov.

Multos modios salis simul edisse, to have eaten bushels of salt with another, i. e. to be old friends, Cic. Lael. 19.—

De patella, i. e. to show contempt for religion (v. patella), Cic. Fin. 2, 7 fin. —

Pugnos, to taste one's fists, i. e. to get a good drubbing, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 153.—

Transf.

Bona, to squander, dissipate, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 29.—

Of inanimate subjects, qs. to eat up, i. e. to consume, destroy ( poet.):

ut mala culmos Esset robigo,

Verg. G. 1, 151:

carinas lentus vapor (i. e. flamma),

id. A. 5, 683:

corpora virus,

Ov. Ib. 608 al. —

Trop., to corrode, consume, devour (almost exclusively poet.):

si quid est animum,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 39; cf.:

nimium libenter edi sermonem tuum,

have devoured, Plaut. Aul. 3, 6, 1:

nec te tantus edat tacitam dolor,

Verg. A. 12, 801:

nec edunt oblivia laudem,

Sil. 13, 665 et saep.

ē-do, dĭdi, dĭtum, 3, v. a., to give out, put forth, bring forth (freq. and class.).

In gen.:

foras per os est editus aër,

Lucr. 3, 122; cf.:

sputa per fauces tussi,

id. 6, 1189:

urinam,

Plin. 28, 4, 7, § 38; cf.

stercus,

Col. 2, 14: animam, to breathe out, i. e. to die, expire, Cic. Sest. 38, 83; Ov. H. 9, 62; cf.:

extremum vitae spiritum,

Cic. Phil. 12, 9:

vitam,

id. Fin. 5, 2, 4; id. Planc. 37, 90:

clamorem,

to send forth, utter, id. Div. 2, 23; cf.:

miros risus,

id. Q. Fr. 2, 10, 2:

fremitum patulis sub naribus (equus),

Lucr. 5, 1076:

voces,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 8:

dulces modos,

Ov. F. 1, 444:

questus,

id. M. 4, 588:

hinnitus,

id. ib. 2, 669:

latratus,

id. ib. 4, 451 et saep.:

Maeander in sinum maris editur,

discharges itself, Liv. 38, 13; 39, 53 fin.:

clanculum ex aedibus me edidi foras,

have slipped out, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 9.

In partic., to bring forth any thing new, to produce, beget, form, etc.

Of what is born, begotten (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose):

progeniem in oras luminis,

Lucr. 2, 617:

crocodilos dicunt, cum in terra partum ediderint, obruere ova, deinde discedere,

Cic. N. D. 2, 52; so,

partum,

Liv. 1, 39; cf.:

aliquem partu,

Verg. A. 7, 660; Ov. M. 4, 210; 13, 487:

aliquem maturis nisibus,

id. F. 5, 172:

geminos Latona,

id. M. 6, 336:

nepotem Atlantis (Pleïas),

id. F. 5, 664 al.: (draconem) Qui luci ediderat genitor Saturnius, idem Abdidit, Cic. Poëta Div. 2, 30, 64; cf.:

Electram maximus Atlas Edidit,

Verg. A. 8, 137.—In the pass.:

hebetes eduntur,

Quint. 1, 1, 2. —More freq. in the part.: in lucem editus, Poëta ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 48, 115 (a transl. of the Euripid. ton phunta); cf. Ov. M. 15, 221:

editus partu,

id. ib. 5, 517; 9, 678; id. F. 5, 26:

Venus aquis,

id. H. 7, 60; cf.:

Limnate flumine Gange,

id. M. 5, 48;

for which: de flumine,

id. H. 5, 10 (cf. Zumpt, Gramm. §

451): ille hac,

Ov. M. 10, 298; cf.:

Maecenas atavis regibus,

Hor. C. 1, 1, 1:

infans ex nepte Julia,

Suet. Aug. 65 et saep.—

Transf.:

(tellus) Edidit innumeras species,

Ov. M. 1, 436; cf. Liv. 21, 41:

frondem ulmus,

puts forth, Col. 5, 6, 2:

ea (sc. academia) praestantissimos in eloquentia viros edidit,

Quint. 12, 2, 25.—

Of literary productions, to put forth, to publish (class.):

de republica libros,

Cic. Brut. 5, 19; so,

librum contra suum doctorem,

id. Ac. 2, 4, 12:

annales suos,

id. Att. 2, 16, 4:

orationem scriptam,

Sall. C. 31, 6:

aliquid,

Cic. Leg. 1, 2, 7; Quint. 5, 10, 120; 3, 1, 18; 2, 1, 11; Hor. A. P. 390 et saep.—

Transf., to set forth, publish, relate, tell, utter, announce, declare = exponere;

esp. of the responses of priests and oracles, the decrees of authorities, etc.: apud eosdem (sc. censores) qui magistratu abierint edant et exponant, quid in magistratu gesserint,

Cic. Leg. 3, 20, 47; cf. Hor. S. 2, 5, 61:

ede illa, quae coeperas, et Bruto et mihi,

Cic. Brut. 5, 20:

nomen parentum,

Ov. M. 3, 580; 9, 531; Hor. S. 2, 4, 10:

veros ortus,

Ov. M. 2, 43; cf.:

auctor necis editus,

id. ib. 8, 449:

mea fata tibi,

id. 11, 668 et saep. —With acc. and inf.:

Apollo Pythius oraculum edidit, Spartam nulla re alia esse perituram, etc.,

Cic. Off. 2, 22, 77; cf. Liv. 40, 45; 22, 10; 42, 2.—With dupl. acc.:

auctorem doctrinae ejus falso Pythagoran edunt,

id. 1, 18; cf. id. 1, 46; 27, 27 fin.:

haec mihi, quae canerem Titio, deus edidit ore,

Tib. 1, 4, 73:

iis editis imperiis,

id. 29, 25; cf.:

edito alio tempore ac loco (with constitutum tempus et locus),

Quint. 4, 2, 98:

opinio in vulgus edita,

spread abroad, Caes. B. C. 3, 29, 3; cf. Nep. Dat. 6, 4:

consilia hostium,

i. e. to divulge, betray, Liv. 10, 27 et saep.— Poet.:

arma violentaque bella,

i. e. to sing, celebrate in song, Ov. Am. 1, 1, 1.—Hence,

Jurid. and polit. t. t., to give out, promulgate, proclaim, ordain:

qua quisque actione agere volet, eam prius edere debet. Nam aequissimum videtur, eum, qui acturus est, edere actionem, etc.,

Dig. 2, 13 (tit. De edendo), 1 sq.:

verba,

Cic. Quint. 20, 63; cf.

judicium,

id. ib. 21: tribus, said of the plaintiff in a causa sodaliciorum, to name the tribus (since he had the right, in order to choose the judges, to propose to the defendant four tribus, from which the latter could reject only one, and then to choose the judges according to his own pleasure out of the remaining three, Cic. Planc. 15, 36 sqq.:

judices editi (= editicii),

id. ib. 17, 41; cf.

Wund. Cic. Planc. p. LXXVI. sq., and see editicius: socium tibi in hujus bonis edidisti Quintium,

hast mentioned, Cic. Quint. 24 fin.:

quantum Apronius edidisset deberi, tantum ex edicto dandum erat,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 29; 2, 2, 42: mandata edita, Liv. 31, 19; cf. id. 34, 35:

ederet (consul) quid fieri velit,

to command, id. 40, 40; cf. id. 45, 34.—

Transf. beyond the jurid. sphere:

postquam hanc rationem cordi ventrique edidi, etc.,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 8, 12.—

Of other objects, to produce, perform, bring about, cause (freq. and class.):

oves nullum fructum edere ex se sine cultu hominum et curatione possent,

Cic. N. D. 2, 63, 158:

vitales motus,

Lucr. 3, 560:

proelia pugnasque,

id. 2, 119; 4, 1010; Liv. 8, 9; 21, 43 al.; cf.

caedem,

id. 5, 13; 10, 45 al.:

strages,

Verg. A. 9, 785 and 527:

aliquantum trepidationis,

Liv. 21, 28; cf.

tumultum,

id. 36, 19:

ruinas,

Cic. Leg. 1, 13 fin.:

scelus, facinus,

to perpetrate, id. Phil. 13, 9 fin.:

annuam operam,

i. e. to perform, Liv. 5, 4; cf. id. 3, 63; Suet. Tib. 35:

munus gladiatorium (with parare),

to exhibit, Liv. 28, 21; Suet. Calig. 18; cf.

ludos,

Tac. A. 1, 15; 3, 64; Suet. Caes. 10 al.:

spectaculum,

Tac. A. 14, 17; id. H. 2, 67; Suet. Caes. 44 et saep.:

gladiatores,

Suet. Aug. 45 et saep.:

exemplum severitatis,

Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 2, 2, § 5;

so more freq.: exempla in aliquem,

Ter. Eun. 5, 6, 21; Caes. B. G. 1, 31, 12; Liv. 29, 9 fin. and 27; cf.:

scelus in aliquem,

Cic. Sest. 27.

To raise up, lift, elevate:

corpus celerem super equum,

Tib. 4, 1, 114.—Hence,

ēdĭtus, a, um, P. a. (set forth, heightened; hence, like excelsus).

Prop., of places, elevated, high, lofty (cf.:

altus, celsus, excelsus, sublimis, procerus, arduus, praeceps, profundus), opp. to flat, level (cf.: collis paululum ex planitie editus,

Caes. B. G. 2, 8, 3; id. B. C. 1, 43, 2; Sall. J. 92, 5; Tac. A. 15, 27—very freq. and class.):

Henna est loco perexcelso atque edito,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 48; Caes. B. G. 3, 19, 1 (with acclivis); 7, 18, 3; id. B. C. 3, 37, 4; Sall. J. 92, 5; 98, 3; Liv. 2, 50 et saep.— Comp., Caes. B. C. 1, 7, 5; 1, 43, 2; Sen. N. Q. 7, 5. — Sup., Auct. B. Alex. 28; 31; 72; Just. 2, 1, 17 al.—

Trop.:

viribus editior,

stronger, Hor. S. 1, 3, 110.— Adv. does not occur.—

ēdĭtum, i, n.

A height:

in edito,

Suet. Aug. 72:

ex edito,

Plin. 31, 3, 27.— Plur.:

edita montium,

Tac. A. 4, 46; 12, 56: in editis, Treb. Trig. Tyr. 26.—

Transf., a command, order, Ov. M. 11, 647; cf. Liv. 25, 12, 4.

ĕdo, ōnis, m. [1. edo], a glutton, Varr. ap. Non. 48, 19.

ē-rōdo, no perf., rōsum, 3, v. a., to gnaw off or away, to consume.

Prop.:

vites (animalia),

Plin. 30, 15, 52, § 146; cf. frondes, Col. poet. 10, 323.—

Transf.

In gen., to eat away, corrode:

aes, ferrum (aqua),

Plin. 31, 2, 19, § 28:

arbores sale,

id. 12, 9, 20, § 37.—

Esp. in medic. lang., of erosive remedies, Cels. 5, 28; Plin. 24, 11, 52, § 89; 34, 15, 46, § 176.

ex-ĕdo, ēdi, ēsum (exessum, Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 5), 3 (archaic praes. subj. exedint, Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 32. Post-class. form of the praes. ind. exedit, for exest, Sen. Q. N. 4, 2, 10; Seren. Sammon. 7), v. a., to eat up, devour, consume (class.).

Lit.:

intestina,

Plaut. Ps. 3, 2, 32:

frumentum quod curculiones exesse incipiunt,

Varr. R. R. 1, [p. 682] 63, 1; Col. 1, 6, 16:

serpens, qui jecur ejus exesset,

Hyg. Fab. 55.—Proverb.: tute hoc intristi;

tibi omne est exedendum,

as you have cooked, so you must eat, Ter. Ph. 2, 2, 4; cf.:

tibi quod intristi, exedendum est,

Aus. Idyll. Prooem. 5.—

Transf., in gen., to eat up, consume, destroy:

deus id eripiet, vis aliqua conficiet aut exedet,

Cic. Div. 2, 16, 37:

exesa scabra rubigine pila,

Verg. G. 1, 495:

flammeus ardor Silvas exederat,

Lucr. 5, 1253:

molem (undae),

Curt. 4, 2:

apparebat epigramma exesis posterioribus partibus versiculorum, dimidiatis fere,

effaced by time, Cic. Tusc. 5, 23, 66:

multa monumenta vetustas exederat,

Curt. 3, 4:

exesae arboris antrum,

rotten, hollow, Verg. G. 4, 44:

dens exesus,

Cels. 7, 12:

exesa vis luminis,

consumed, Tac. H. 4, 81:

urbem nefandis odiis,

to destroy, Verg. A. 5, 785:

rem publicam,

Tac. A. 2, 27:

quid te futurum censes, quem assidue exedent,

i. e. devour, consume thy property, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 53. —

Trop., to consume, prey upon, corrode:

aegritudo exest animum,

Cic. Tusc. 3, 13, 27; cf.:

accedunt aegritudines, molestiae, maerores, qui exedunt animos,

id. Fin. 1, 18, 59; 1, 16, 51:

illi beati, quos nullae aegritudines exedunt, etc.,

id. Tusc. 5, 6, 16:

maestas exedit cura medullas,

Cat. 66, 23 et saep.:

exspectando exedor miser atque exenteror,

Plaut. Ep. 3, 1, 1.

rōdo, si, sum, 3, v. a. [cf. rado], to gnaw (class.).

Lit.: rutabulum, Novat. ap. Fest. p. 262 Müll. (Com. Rel. p. 226 Rib.):

clipeos, etc. (mures),

Cic. Div. 2, 27, 59: praetextam, Poët. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 19:

dente pollicem,

Hor. Epod. 5, 48:

vivos ungues,

id. S. 1, 10, 71:

vitem (caper),

Ov. F. 1, 357:

saxa capellae,

id. M. 13, 691:

reliquias (mures),

Phaedr. 1, 22, 6:

rosus tineis,

Stat. S. 4, 9, 10. —

Transf., to eat away, waste away, corrode, consume:

ripas (flumina),

Lucr. 5, 256:

ferrum (robigo),

Ov. P. 1, 1, 71:

tophum (calx),

Plin. 36, 22, 48, § 166. —

Trop., to backbite, slander, disparage, etc. (syn. vellico):

in conviviis rodunt,

Cic. Balb. 26, 57:

absentem amicum,

Hor. S. 1, 4, 81:

libertino patre natum,

id. ib. 1, 6, 46:

cuncta robiginosis dentibus,

Mart. 5, 28, 7; cf.:

dentem dente,

i. e. to speak ill of each other, id. 13, 2, 6: murmura secum et rabiosa silentia rodunt, i. e. to mutter to one ' s self, Pers. 3, 81.

ūro, ussi, ustum, 3, v. a. [for uso from root us; cf. Gr. euô, to singe; auô, to kindle], to burn (class.).

Lit.

In gen.:

(sacer ignis) urit corpore serpens Quamcumque arripuit partem,

Lucr. 6, 660:

urere ne possit calor amplius aridus artus,

id. 4, 871:

calidum hoc est: etsi procul abest, urit male,

Plaut. Most. 3, 1, 81:

urit odoratam nocturna in lumina cedrum,

Verg. A. 7, 13:

homines in usum nocturni luminis,

Tac. A. 15, 44:

picem et ceras alimentaque cetera flammae,

Ov. M. 14, 533.—

In partic.

To burn up, destroy by fire, consume (syn. cremo):

hominem mortuum, inquit lex in XII., in urbe ne sepelito neve urito,

Cic. Leg. 2, 23, 58 Mos.; so XII. Tab. ib. 2, 24, 60:

flamma cum corpora fulva leonum soleat torrere atque urere,

Lucr. 5, 898 (902): in corpore si quid ejusmodi est, quod reliquo corpori noceat, id uri secarique patimur, Cic. Phil. 8, 5, 15:

agros,

Liv. 26, 21, 15:

urbes hostium,

Tac. H. 2, 12:

superbas Carthaginis arces,

Hor. Epod. 7, 6:

Achaïcus Ignis Iliacas domos,

id. C. 1, 15, 35; cf.:

usto ab Ilio,

id. Epod. 10, 13:

ustis navibus,

id. ib. 9, 8:

neglectis urenda filix innascitur agris,

id. S. 1, 3, 37:

cum frondibus uritur arbos,

Ov. M. 2, 212 et saep.:

acanthi radices ustis laxatisque mire prosunt,

burned, scorched, Plin. 22, 22, 34, § 76:

a sole usti,

id. 23, 4, 42, § 85:

ecce sexus infirmus se uri perpetitur,

Lact. 5, 13, 14:

urbis hostium,

Tac. H. 2, 12:

praedas,

id. A. 4, 48:

regionem,

Curt. 4, 9, 8; 4, 14, 2.—

Of encaustic painting, to burn in (very rare):

picta coloribus ustis puppis,

Ov. F. 4, 275:

tabulam coloribus,

id. ib. 3, 831.—

Transf.

To burn, i. e. to scorch, parch, dry up; to sting or pain acutely (syn. torreo):

videmus ceteras partes incultas (terrarum), quod aut frigore rigeant aut urantur calore,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 69:

cum Sol gravis ureret arva,

Ov. M. 6, 339:

terras (Sol),

id. ib. 4, 194:

campum (seges),

Verg. G. 1, 77 sq.:

solum (cicer),

Plin. 18, 12, 32, § 124:

vineas (fimum suillum),

id. 17, 27, 46, § 258:

urentes harenae,

Hor. C. 3, 4, 31;

v. Orell. ad h. l.: sitis usserat herbas,

Ov. F. 4, 299:

sitis arida guttur Urit,

id. M. 11, 130:

fauces urit sitis,

Hor. S. 1, 2, 114:

nec febribus uror anhelis,

Ov. P. 1, 10, 5:

pestilentia urens simul urbem atque agros,

Liv. 10, 47, 6:

dysenteria si urat,

Plin. 28, 9, 33, § 128: calx urit, discutit, extrahit, burns, heats (when taken as a medicine), id. 36, 24, 57, § 180:

uri, vinciri, ferroque necari,

Sen. Ep. 37, 1:

hae sunt, quarum Delicias et panniculus bombycinus urit,

oppresses, Juv. 6, 260.—

To rub sore; to gall, fret, chafe, corrode:

calceus... si pede minor, uret,

Hor. Ep. 1, 10, 43:

si te gravis uret sarcina chartae,

id. ib. 1, 13, 6:

teneros urit lorica lacertos,

Prop. 4 (5), 3, 23:

uri virgis,

Hor. S. 2, 7, 58:

loris non ureris,

id. Ep. 1, 16, 47:

antiqua terebra urit eam partem quam perforat: Gallica excavat nec urit,

Col. Arb. 8, 3:

ut prensos urant juga prima juvencos,

Ov. R. Am. 235. —

To pinch with cold; to nip, blast, wither:

pernoctant venatores in nive, in montibus uri se patiuntur,

Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 40:

Scythae continuis frigoribus uruntur,

Just. 2, 2, 9:

iis, quae frigus usserit, sunt remedio,

Plin. 22, 25, 57, § 119; Ov. Tr. 3, 2, 8; id. F. 1, 680:

urebant montana nives,

Luc. 4, 52; Val. Fl. 2, 287.—

Trop., to burn, inflame, consume with passion; in pass., to burn, glow, be heated, be inflamed, be enamored; of love or lust:

me tamen urit amor,

Verg. E. 2, 68:

Daphnis me malus urit,

id. ib. 8, 83:

vires urit videndo Femina,

id. G. 3, 215:

urit me Glycerae nitor, Urit grata protervitas,

Hor. C. 1, 19, 5 sq. — Pass.:

uritur infelix Dido,

Verg. A. 4, 68: Hor. Epod. 14, 13; Ov. M. 1, 496; 3, 464; 7, 22;

13, 763 al.: meum jecur urere bilis,

Hor. S. 1, 9, 66:

ira communiter urit utrumque,

id. Ep. 1, 2, 13.— Pass.:

uror, seu, etc.,

Hor. C. 1, 13, 9.—Of envy:

urit fulgore suo,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 13.—

Transf.

To vex, annoy:

uro hominem,

I gall the fellow, Ter. Eun. 2, 2, 42; cf. pass.:

id nunc his cerebrum uritur, Me esse hos trecentos Philippos facturum lucri,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 5, 25. —

In gen., to disturb, harass, annoy, oppress:

eos bellum Romanum urebat,

Liv. 10, 17, 1; cf. pass.:

quo (bello) Italia urebatur,

id. 27, 39, 9:

labor aliquem urens,

id. 36, 23, 5:

captos legibus ure tuis,

Ov. Am. 1, 8, 70:

populum gravis urebat infesto mari annona,

Vell. 2, 77, 1:

urebat nobilem populum ablatum mare,

Flor. 2, 6, 2.