celeriter+perstringere

per-stringo, nxi, ctum, 3, v. a.

To bind tightly together; to draw together, draw up, contract:

vitem,

Cato, R. R. 32:

stomachus nimio rigore perstrictus,

Veg. Vet. 3, 53; Grat. Cyneg. 296.—

To graze, graze against a thing.

Lit.:

femur,

Verg. A. 10, 344:

solum aratro,

to plough slightly, Cic. Agr. 2, 25:

portam vomere,

to graze against, id. Phil. 2, 40 dub. (al. praestr-).—

Transf., To blunt by grazing against, to make dull, to dull:

minaci murmure aures,

to stun, deafen, Hor. C. 2, 1, 18:

juvenem multo perstringunt lumine,

Stat. Th. 5, 666 (but for perstringere oculos, aciem, etc., cf. praestringo).—

Trop.

To seize:

horror ingens spectantes perstringit,

Liv. 1, 25; Val. Fl. 7, 81; cf. id. 7, 194.—

In partic.

To touch or wound slightly with words; to blame, censure, reprimand, reprove (class.):

alicujus voluntatem asperioribus facetiis,

Cic. Planc. 14, 33:

aliquem vocis libertate,

id. Sest. 6, 14:

aliquem suspicione,

id. Sull. 16, 46:

aliquem oblique,

Tac. A. 5, 11:

cultum habitumque alicujus lenibus verbis,

id. ib. 2, 59:

modice perstricti,

id. ib. 4, 17:

ad perstringendos mulcendosque militum animos,

id. H. 1, 85.—

In speaking, to touch slightly, to glance over, to narrate briefly:

leviter transire ac tantummodo perstringere unamquamque rem,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 32, 91:

quod meis omnibus litteris in Pompeianā laude perstrictus est (Crassus),

belittled, slighted, id. Att. 1, 14, 3:

perquam breviter perstringere atque attingere,

id. de Or. 2, 49, 201:

celeriter perstringere reliquum vitae cursum,

id. Phil. 2, 19, 47:

summatim,

Vulg. Dan. 7, 1.