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1 carnificīna (carnuf-)
carnificīna (carnuf-) ae, f [carnifex], the rack, torture, torment, butchery: carnificinam su bire: in carnificinam duci, L. -
2 strāgēs
strāgēs is, f [STRAG-], an overthrow, destruction, ruin, defeat, slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage: strages efficere: horribilis, C. poët.: quantas acies stragemque ciebunt! V.: complere strage campos, L.: ferro strages edere, V.— A confused heap, disordered mass, waste, wreck: dabit ille (nimbus) ruinas Arboribus stragemque satis, V.: tempestas stragem fecit, L.: strage armorum saepta via est, L.: rerum relictarum, L.: canum volucrumque, O.* * *overthrow; massacre, slaughter, cutting down; havoc; confused heap -
3 trucīdātiō
trucīdātiō ōnis, f [trucido], a slaughter, massacre, butchery: velut pecorum, L.: civium.* * *slaughtering, massacre -
4 strages
strāges, is, f. [sterno, II. B.], a throwing down, throwing to the ground, overthrowing; an overthrow; confusion, confused heap or mass (cf.: acervus, strues; not freq. till after the Aug. per., esp. in Liv.; not in Cæs.).I.Lit.A.In gen.(α).With gen.:(β).strage armorum saepta via est,
Liv. 35, 30:nemorum,
Sil. 3, 205:ruinae,
Liv. 42, 63:minarum,
id. 37, 32:aedificiorum et hominum,
Tac. A. 1, 76:obstantis molis,
id. H. 1, 86:rerum in trepidatione nocturna passim relictarum,
Liv. 10, 34:boum hominumque,
id. 41, 21:canum volucrumque aviumque boumque,
Ov. M. 7, 536:exercituum,
Val. Max. 6, 6, ext. 1.—Absol.:B.dabit ille (nimbus) ruinas Arboribus stragemque satis,
Verg. A. 12, 454:atrox tempestas multis locis stragem fecit,
Liv. 40, 2:strage ac ruinā fudere Gallos,
id. 5, 43; cf. id. 4, 33.—Pregn., a mortal overthrow; a defeat, slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage (syn.: caedes, clades): stragem horribilem caedemque vereri, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 20; so (with caedes) Tac. A. 14, 36; Just. 10, 3, 1; Val. Max. 5, 6, 5; cf.:* II.quantas acies stragemque ciebunt!
Verg. A. 6, 829:confusae stragis acervus,
id. ib. 6, 504:complere strage campos,
Liv. 7, 24.—In plur.:strages facere,
Cic. Phil. 3, 12, 31:strages edere,
id. Leg. 3, 9, 22; id. Att. 1, 16, 1; Verg. A. 9, 526; 9, 784; Just. 33, 2, 2; cf.also II.: cruentae,
Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 132.— -
5 trucidatio
I.Lit.:II.inde non jam pugna, sed trucidatio velut pecorum fleri,
Liv. 28, 16, 6:civium,
Cic. Phil. 4, 5, 11.—In plur. absol.: tantas trucidationes facis, Cato ap. Gell. 13, 24, 12.—Transf., a cutting to pieces, cutting up, cutting off, Cels. praef. med.:arborum,
a lopping, trimming, Plin. 17, 27, 45, § 257.
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