ēverriculum

ēverrĭcŭlum, i, n. [everro], a sweepnet, drag-net.

Prop., for taking a large number of fishes, Varr. R. R. 3, 17, 7; App. Mag. p. 294; cf. Non. p. 34; and: everriculum, quod Graece sagênê dicitur, Dig. 47, 10, 13, § 7.—

Trop.: everriculum malitiarum omnium, the drag-net, i. e. the sweeperaway of all basenesses, Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 74: quod umquam hujuscemodi everriculum ulla in provincia fuit? i. e. a plunderer, sarcastically applied to Verres, id. Verr. 2, 4, 24, 53; cf. everro, II.

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a fishing net, seine / a clean sweep

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ē-verro, verri, versum, 3, v. a., to sweep out (class.).

Lit.:

stercus ex aede Vestae,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 32 Müll.; cf.:

purgamenta salsamentorum officinis,

Col. 8, 17, 12: aedes, Titin. ap. Non. 192, 11:

solum stabuli,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 7:

everrere et purgare stabula,

Col. 7, 4, 5:

domum,

Vulg. Luc. 15, 8.— Poet.:

aequor retibus,

Manil. 4, 285, v. verro.—

Transf., of cleansing a wound:

egestis vel eversis omnibus, quae tumorem moverant,

Veg. Vet. 3, 30 fin. —

Trop., to clean out, plunder completely, Plaut. Truc. prol. 21;

so in a sarcastic pun applied to Verres: o Verria praeclara!... quod fanum non eversum atque extersum reliqueris?

Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 21 fin.; cf. everriculum, II.

mălĭtĭa, ae, f. [malus], bad quality, badness.

Lit. (post-class.):

terrae malitia,

Pall. 1, 6:

arboris,

unfruitfulness, id. 11, 8.—

Trop., ill-will, spite, malice (class.): virtutis contraria est vitiositas: sic enim malo, quam malitiam, appellare eam, quam Graeci kakian appellant:

nam malitia certi cujusdam vitii nomen est: vitiositas omnium,

Cic. Tusc. 4, 15, 34:

est enim malitia versuta et fallax nocendi ratio,

id. N. D. 3, 30, 75; id. Rosc. Com. 16, 46:

per summam fraudem et malitiam,

id. Quint. 18, 56; id. Clu. 26, 70;

opp. to virtus: virtute, non malitia, P. Scipioni placuisse,

Sall. J. 22, 2.—With malus:

sine mala omni malitia,

Plaut. Aul. 2, 2, 38.—In plur.:

collatio nostrarum malitiarum,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 3, 66:

everriculum malitiarum omnium,

Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 74.—

Cunning, artfulness:

muliebris malitia adhibenda est mihi,

Plaut. Ep. 4, 1, 23.—

Sometimes in a good sense, like our roguery, Cic. Att. 15, 26, 4:

tamen a malitia non discedis,

you do not desist from your roguery, id. Fam. 9, 19, 1.