ex-cruciō

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crŭcĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [crux].

Orig., to put to death on the cross, to crucify (only in eccl. Lat.), Lact. Mort. Pers. 2, 1.—

In gen., to put to the rack, to torture, torment (freq. and class., esp. in the signif. B.).

Physically:

cum vigiliis et fame cruciaretur,

Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 65:

tribunos militum verberatos servilibusque omnibus suppliciis cruciatos trucidando occidit,

Liv. 29, 18, 14 Drak. N. cr.:

cum cruciabere dirae Sanguine serpentis,

Ov. M. 2, 651:

cruciataque diris Corpora tormentis,

id. ib. 3, 694 al.:

qui advehuntur quadrupedanti crucianti canterio,

i. e. torturing the rider by its uneasy motion, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 34.—

Transf. of inanimate things:

terra ferro, ligno, igni, lapide, fruge omnibus cruciatur horis,

Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 157; so,

aes cruciatur in primis accensumque restinguitur sale,

id. 33, 3, 20, § 65.—

Mentally.

Act.:

graviter adulescentulum,

Ter. Heaut. 5, 5, 1; id. Eun. 2, 3, 93; Hor. S. 1, 10, 78 al.:

officii me deliberatio cruciat cruciavitque adhuc,

Cic. Att. 8, 15, 2:

ut ipsus sese cruciat aegritudine!

Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 89:

ne crucia te, obsecro, anime mi,

Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 15; cf. Hor. S. 1, 2, 22:

quos major sollicitudo cruciat,

Just. 6, 3, 9:

illud me cruciat, quod, etc.,

Mart. 11, 94, 5. —So pass.:

tanto dolore cruciatus est,

Just. 12, 13, 9.—

Medial (only in Plaut. and Ter.), to afflict one's self, to grieve, be afflicted:

ut miserae matres cruciantur!

Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 2; cf.:

crucior miser,

Ter. And. 5, 2, 10; with acc. and inf.:

crucior me lapidem non habere, ut, etc.,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 68; Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 6; and with acc. of neutr. pron.:

istuc crucior, a viro me tali abalienarier,

Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 11; id. Trin. 5, 2, 46.

to torture, torment

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crŭcĭābĭlis, e, adj. [crucio], tormenting, torturing, painful, excruciating, miserable (rare;

not in Cic.): cruciabilem me accipito,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 40 Ritschl:

exitu periit,

Gell. 3, 9, 7; cf.

mors,

Arn. adv. Gent. 2:

silentio fatigatus,

App. M. 10, p. 239, 20. —

Susceptible of torture:

animae,

Lact. 7, 20, 9.— Adv.: crŭcĭābĭlĭter, with torture, Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 40 Fleck., Lorenz: interfecti, Auct. B. Afr. 46.

crŭcĭābĭlis, e, adj. [crucio], tormenting, torturing, painful, excruciating, miserable (rare;

not in Cic.): cruciabilem me accipito,

Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 40 Ritschl:

exitu periit,

Gell. 3, 9, 7; cf.

mors,

Arn. adv. Gent. 2:

silentio fatigatus,

App. M. 10, p. 239, 20. —

Susceptible of torture:

animae,

Lact. 7, 20, 9.— Adv.: crŭcĭābĭlĭter, with torture, Plaut. Ps. 4, 1, 40 Fleck., Lorenz: interfecti, Auct. B. Afr. 46.

dis-crŭcĭo, no perf., ātum, 1, v. a., to torture violently, to torment (repeatedly in Plaut. and Cic.; elsewh. rare).

Physically:

aliquem discruciatum necare,

Cic. Phil. 13, 18, 37; Amm. 27, 12, 3.—More freq.,

Mentally, with se or in the mid. form, to torment one's self; to be troubled, vexed, chagrined: quid te discrucias? Plaut. Fragm. ap. Non. 143, 3:

ego discrucior miser amore,

Plaut. Cas. 2, 3, 58; id. Poen. 1, 2, 155.—With acc. and inf., Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 31; Cic. Att. 14, 6; Cat. 66, 76:

quod enim ipse celeriter arripuit, id cum tarde percipi videt, discruciatur,

Cic. Rosc. Com. 11, 31:

discrucior animi, quia, etc.,

Plaut. Aul. 1, 2, 27; so,

animi,

Ter. Ad. 4, 4, 1.

ex-crŭcĭo, āvi, ātum, 1 (archaic inf. praes. excruciarier, Ter. Heaut. 3, 1, 4), v. a., to torment greatly, to torture, rack, plague (class.).

Physically:

perii! excruciabit me herus,

Plaut. Mil. 3, 2, 45:

servos fame vinculisque,

Caes. B. G. 7, 19, 9; cf.:

(uxores) igni atque omnibus tormentis excruciatae,

id. ib. 6, 19, 3:

aliquem vinculis ac verberibus atque omni supplicio excruciatum necare,

Cic. de Imp. Pomp 5, 11; cf.

also: hominem ingenuum fumo excruciatum semivivum reliquit,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 17, § 45:

excruciatus inopiā, Plaut Bacch. 3, 4, 24: ipsos crudeliter excruciatos interficit,

Caes. B. G. 7, 38, 9:

frigus nudos excruciabat,

Lucr. 5, 1426 et saep.—Comic. Ep. Hunc tibi dedo diem. St. Meam culpam habeto, nisi probe excruciavero, qs. thoroughly torture it, i. e. use it up, make the most of it, Plaut. Stich. 3, 1, 32.—

Transf., to force out by torturing, to extort:

re excruciatā,

Tert. ad Uxor. 2, 5 fin. —

Mentally, to afflict, distress, harass, vex, torment: conficior maerore, mea Terentia;

nec meae me miseriae magis excruciant quam tuae,

Cic. Fam. 14, 3, 1; cf.:

non loquor plura, ne te quoque excruciem,

id. Att. 10, 18, 3:

haec sunt, quae me excruciant,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 2, 9.—In imprecations:

di deaeque te excrucient,

Plaut. Pers. 5, 2, 50:

temeritas et libido et ignavia semper animum excruciant et semper sollicitant,

Cic. Fin. 1, 16, 50:

se,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 14:

quid illam miseram animi excrucias?

id. Mil. 4, 2, 76; cf.:

se animi,

id. Rud. 2, 3, 68:

tum Antipho me excruciat animi,

Ter. Phorm. 1, 4, 10; v. also in the foll.—In the pass.:

excrucior,

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 61; id. Trin. 1, 2, 66:

id ego excrucior,

id. Ep. 2, 2, 8; cf.:

hoc sese excruciat animi, Quia, etc.,

id. Rud. 2, 3, 57.

mācĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [prob. from root mag-, massô, to knead; through an adj. mācerus; v. Corss. Ausspr. 1, 395; cf. also măcer], to make soft or tender, to soften by steeping, to soak, steep, macerate (not in Cic. or Cæs.).

Lit.:

brassicam in aquam,

Cato, R. R. 156, 5:

salsamenta,

Ter. Ad. 3, 3, 27:

in piscina lupinum,

Col. 1, 6, 21:

semen lacte,

id. 11, 3, 51:

(ramos genistae) marinā aquā,

Plin. 24, 9, 40, § 66:

(siliginem) novem diebus maceratum... subigunt,

id. 18, 11, 27, § 106:

grana (cacaliae) in oleo,

id. 25, 11, 85, § 135:

intestina piscium sale,

id. 31, 7, 43, § 93:

podagrici crura macerantes,

Vitr. 18, 3.—

Transf., to weaken in body or mind, to waste away, enervate.

Of the body:

multos iste morbus homines macerat,

Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 22; Liv. 26, 13:

quam lentis macerer ignibus,

Hor. C. 1, 13, 8; cf.:

Macedo siti maceratus,

Curt. 5, 13, 24:

pars exercitus ad utilitatem nostram macerata perductaque ad exitiabilem famem,

Vell. 2, 112, 4:

Fabius sic maceravit Hannibalem, ut, etc.,

i. e. Hannibal's army, Flor. 2, 6, 28:

muscus crura vitium situ et veterno macerat,

Col. 4, 22, 6:

cor solum viscerum vitiis non maceratur,

Plin. 11, 37, 69, § 182.—

Of the mind, to fret, vex, torment, distress, torture, pain (syn.:

crucio, torqueo): egemet me concoquo et macero et defatigo,

fret myself, Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 2:

quor me excrucio? quor me macero? quor meam senectutem sollicito?

Ter. And. 5, 3, 15; cf. id. Eun. 1, 2, 107:

noli te macerare,

id. And. 4, 2, 2:

cura satis me lacrumis maceravi,

Plaut. Capt. 5, 1, 8:

hoc me facinus miserum macerat,

id. Mil. 3, 1, 21: infelix sollicitudo persequitur nec oratorem macerat et coquit, * Quint. 12, 10, 77:

quae vos macerent desiderio,

Liv. 5, 54, 3; 26, 13, 8.— Poet., with a causal object-clause:

consimili ratione ab eodem saepe timore macerat invidia, ante oculos illum esse potentem,

Lucr. 3, 75.— Mid., to vex, torment one's self:

maceror interdum, quod sim tibi causa dolendi,

Ov. H. 2, 125: unum hoc maceror et doleo tibi deesse, Terenti, C. Caes. ap. Suet. Vit. Ter. fin.: ex desiderio magis magisque maceror, Afran. ap. Charis. p. 182 P.

torquĕo, torsi, tortum, 2 (archaic inf. torquerier, Hor. S. 2, 8, 67), v. a. [Gr. trepô, to turn; cf. atrekês; also Sanscr. tarkus; Gr. atraktos, a spindle; and strephô, to twist], to turn, turn about or away; to twist, bend, wind (class.; syn. converto).

Lit.

In gen.:

cervices oculosque,

Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 39:

oculum,

to roll, distort, id. Ac. 2, 25, 80:

ora,

to twist awry, id. Off. 1, 36, 131:

ab obscenis sermonibus aurem,

Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 127:

oculos ad moenia,

Verg. A. 4, 220:

ad sonitum vocis vestigia,

id. ib. 3, 669:

serpens squamosos orbes Torquet,

Ov. M. 3, 42; cf.

anguis,

Verg. G. 3, 38:

capillos ferro,

i. e. to curl, frizzle, Ov. A. A. 1, 505:

stamina pollice,

id. M. 12, 475:

remis aquas,

id. F. 5, 644:

spumas,

Verg. A. 3, 208:

taxos in arcus,

to bend, id. G. 2, 448:

tegumen torquens immane leonis,

winding about him, id. A. 7, 666:

cum terra circum axem se convertat et torqueat,

Cic. Ac. 2, 39, 123:

torta circum bracchia vestis,

Tac. H. 5, 22.—

In partic.

To whirl around, to whirl in the act of throwing, to wield, brandish, to fling with force, to hurl (mostly poet.):

torquet nunc lapidem, nunc ingens machina tignum,

Hor. Ep. 2, 2, 73:

amnis torquet sonantia saxa,

Verg. A. 6, 551:

stuppea torquentem Balearis verbera fundae,

id. G. 1, 309:

jaculum in hostem,

id. A. 10, 585; Ov. M. 12, 323: hastam in hunc, id. ib 5, 137;

for which: hastam alicui,

Val. Fl. 3, 193:

telum aurata ad tempora,

Verg. A. 12, 536:

tela manu,

Ov. M. 12, 99:

valido pila lacerto,

id. F. 2, 11:

glebas, ramos,

id. M. 11, 30:

cum fulmina torquet (Juppiter),

Verg. A. 4, 208;

and trop.: cum Juppiter horridus austris Torquet aquosam hiemem,

id. ib. 9, 671; cf.:

Eurus nubes in occiduum orbem,

Luc. 4, 63.—In prose:

torquere amentatas hastas lacertis,

Cic. de Or. 1, 57, 242.—

To twist awry, misplace, turn aside, distort:

negat sibi umquam, cum oculum torsisset, duas ex lucernā flammulas esse visas,

Cic. Ac. 2, 25, 80:

ora Tristia temptantum sensu (sapor) torquebit amaro,

Verg. G. 2, 247.—

To wrench the limbs upon the rack, to put to the rack or to the torture, to rack, torture (class.):

ita te nervo torquebo, itidem uti catapultae solent,

Plaut. Curc. 5, 3, 12:

eculeo torqueri,

Cic. Fin. 3, 13, 42:

aliquem servilem in modum,

Suet. Aug. 27; cf.:

ira torquentium,

Tac. A. 15, 57:

servum in caput domini,

against his master, Dig. 48, 18, 1: vinctus tortusve, [p. 1880] Suet. Aug. 40 fin. —

Trop.

In gen., to twist, wrest, distort, turn, bend, direct (a favorite expression of Cicero):

versare suam naturam et regere ad tempus atque huc et illuc torquere ac flectere,

Cic. Cael. 6, 13:

torquere et flectere imbecillitatem animorum,

id. Leg. 1, 10, 29:

oratio ita flexibilis, ut sequatur, quocumque torqueas,

id. Or. 16, 52:

omnia ad suae causae commodum,

id. Inv. 2, 14, 46:

verbo ac litterā jus omne torqueri,

wrested, perverted, id. Caecin. 27, 77:

sonum,

to inflect, Auct. Her. 3, 14, 25:

cuncta tuo qui bella, pater, sub numine torques,

Verg. A. 12, 180:

versare sententias, et huc atque illuc torquere,

Tac. H. 1, 85.—

In partic. (acc. to A. 2.), to rack, torment, torture (syn.:

ango, crucio): tuae libidines te torquent,

Cic. Par. 2, 18:

mitto aurum coronarium, quod te diutissime torsit,

id. Pis. 37, 90: acriter nos tuae supplicationes torserunt, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 11, 1:

equidem dies noctesque torqueor,

Cic. Att. 7, 9, 4:

verbi controversia jam diu torquet Graeculos homines,

id. de Or. 1, 11, 47; 3, 9, 33:

stulti malorum memoriā torquentur,

id. Fin. 1, 17, 57:

sollicitudine, poenitentia, etc., torquetur mens,

Quint. 12, 1, 7:

invidiā vel amore vigil torquebere,

Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 37; Ov. H. 20, 123:

torqueor, infesto ne vir ab hoste cadat,

id. ib. 9, 36; cf. Hor. S. 2, 8, 67:

Aeacus torquet umbras,

holds inquisition over, Juv. 1, 9.— Transf.: (reges) dicuntur torquere mero, quem perspexisse laborant, qs. to rack with wine, i. e. to try or test with wine, Hor. A. P. 435; so,

vino tortus et irā,

id. Ep. 1, 18, 38.—

To hurl, fling (of language):

curvum sermone rotato enthymema,

Juv. 6, 449.—Hence, tortus, a, um, P. a., twisted, crooked, contorted, distorted.

Lit.:

via (labyrinthi),

Prop. 4 (5), 4, 42:

quercus,

i. e. a twisted oakgarland, Verg. G. 1, 349.—Hence,

Subst.: torta, ae, f., a twisted loaf, a twist, Vulg. 1 Par. 16, 3. —

Trop.:

condiciones,

confused, complicated, Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 25. — Adv.: tortē, awry, crookedly:

torte penitusque remota,

Lucr. 4, 305 (329).