lop

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am-pŭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to cut around, to cut away or off, to lop off, prune.

Lit., esp. of plants: amputata id est circum putata, Paul. ex Fest. p. 24 Müll.:

vitem ferro,

Cic. Sen. 15:

mergum,

Col. 4, 15, 4:

cacumen (ulmi),

Plin. 16, 32, 57, § 132.—

Of other things: praeceidit caulem testīsque una amputat ambo,

Lucil. 7, 22 Müll.:

pestiferum in corpore,

Cic. Phil. 8, 5:

umeros,

to mutilate, Sen. Thyest. 761:

ex ipso vertice capillos,

Plin. Ep. 7, 27, 12:

caput,

Suet. Galb. 20:

manus,

id. ib. 9:

pollices,

id. Aug. 24 et saep.—In Pliny also of things that are bitten off:

caudas mugili,

Plin. 9, 62, 88, § 185.—

Trop., to lop off, curtail, shorten, diminish:

amputata inanitas omnis et error,

removed, banished, Cic. Fin. 1, 13:

volo esse in adulescente, unde aliquid amputem,

id. de Or. 2, 21:

licet hinc quantum cuique videbitur circumcidat atque amputet,

id. ib. 1, 15, 65:

longa colloquia,

Sen. Med. 530:

numerum legionum,

Tac. H. 2, 69.—In rhet.:

amputata loqui,

in a disconnected manner, in abrupt sentences, Cic. Or. 51:

amputata oratio et abscisa,

concise, Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 18.

tondĕo, tŏtondi, tonsum, 2 (collat. form acc. to the third conj.: OVES TONDVNTVR, Calend. ap. Grut. 138), v. a. [for tomdeo; root in Gr. temnô, to cut], to shear, clip, crop, to shave, etc.

Lit.:

barbam et capillum,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58; so,

barbam,

Mart. 11, 39, 3:

capillum,

Ov. M. 8, 151:

cutem,

Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 7:

os,

Cat. 61, 139:

ovem,

Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 28; Hor. Epod. 2, 16; Verg. G. 3, 443; Plin. 18, 27, 67, § 257; cf.

lanam,

Hor. C. 3, 15, 14:

naevos in facie,

Plin. 28, 4, 6, § 34: saltatrix tonsa, i. e. with hair clipped short (of the Consul Gabinius), Cic. Pis. 8, 18; cf.: tonsus puer or minister, cropped, i. e. common, mean, Mart. 10, 98, 9; 11, 11, 3: ad alta tonsum templa cum reum misit, i. e. acquitted (prop. without the untrimmed hair of accused persons), id. 2, 74, 3.—Mid.:

lavamur et tondemur et convivimus ex consuetudine,

Quint. 1, 6, 44.— Absol.:

ne tonsori collum committeret, tondere filias suas docuit,

Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58.—And in reflex. sense:

ut decrescente lunā tondens calvus fiam,

shaving myself, Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 2:

candidior postquain tondenti barba cadebat,

Verg. E. 1, 29.—

Transf.

To crop, lop, prune, trim:

ille comam mollis jam tondebat hyacinthi,

was cropping, Verg. G. 4, 137:

violas manu,

Prop. 3, 13, 29:

vitem in pollicem,

Col. 4, 21, 3:

oleas, vites,

Plin. 15, 1, 2, § 4:

balsamum,

id. 12, 25, 54, § 112:

ilicem bipennibus,

to lop, Hor. C. 4, 4, 57:

myrtos,

Quint. 8, 3, 8.—

To mow, reap:

tonsas cessare novales patiere,

after harvest, Verg. G. 1, 71:

nocte arida prata Tondentur,

id. ib. 1, 290:

tondeturque seges maturos annua partus,

Tib. 4, 1, 172:

tonsam verrit humum,

Ov. R. Am. 192; Sen. Phoen. 130.—

To crop, to graze, feed, or browse upon, to eat off; to pluck, gather, cull ( poet.):

ex uno tondentes gramina campo Lanigerae pecudes,

Lucr. 2, 660:

pabula (pecudes),

id. 2, 317:

dumeta (juvenci),

Verg. G. 1, 15:

campum late (equi),

id. A. 3, 538:

viridantia gramina morsu,

id. Cul. 49:

tondentes comam fluvii capellae,

App. M. 5, p. 169, 37:

jecur rostro (vultur),

Verg. A. 6, 598:

ales avida fecundum jecur,

Sen. Agam. 18; cf.

in a Greek constr.: illa autem, quae tondetur praecordia rostro Alitis,

Sil. 13, 839. —

As in Engl., to shave, fleece, for to deprive, plunder (very rare):

adibo hunc... itaque tondebo auro usque ad vivam cutem,

Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 8:

tondens purpureā regna paterna comā,

Prop. 3, 19 (4, 18), 22.

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to cut short, lop, mutilate.

caedo, cĕcīdi (in MSS. freq. caecīdi, v. Neue, Formenl. 2, 460), caesum, 3, v. a. [root cīd- for scid-; cf. scindo; Gr. schizô].

Lit.

In gen.

To cut, hew, lop, cut down, fell, cut off, cut to pieces: caesa abiegna trabes, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 75 (Trag. v. 281 Vahl.):

frondem querneam caedito,

Cato, R. R. 5, 8:

arbores,

Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33; Ov. M. 9, 230:

robur,

Cic. Div. 2, 41, 86; Ov. M. 8, 769:

lignum,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3. 63: silvam, Varr ap. Non. p. 272, 5; Lucr. 5, 1265; Caes. B. G. 3, 29; Ov. M. 8, 329; Suet. Aug. 94 fin.; Pall. Mai, 4, 1:

nemus,

Ov. M. 2, 418; cf. id. ib. 1, 94; 9, 230; 9, 374;

14, 535: harundinem,

Dig. 7, 1, 59, § 2:

arboris auctum,

Lucr. 6, 167:

comam vitis,

Tib. 1, 7, 34:

faenum,

Col. 2, 18, 1:

murus latius quam caederetur ruebat,

Liv. 21, 11, 9:

caesis montis fodisse medullis,

Cat. 68, 111; so,

caedi montis in marmora,

Plin. 12, prooem. §

2: lapis caedendus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 147:

silicem,

id. Div. 2, 41, 85:

marmor,

Dig. 24, 3, 7, § 13:

toga rotunda et apte caesa,

cut out, Quint. 11, 3, 139: caedunt securibus umida vina, with axes they cut out the wine (formerly liquid, now frozen), Verg. G. 3, 364: volutas, to carve or hollow out volutes, Vitr. 3, 3: tineae omnia caedunt, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 272, 14.—

Prov.:

ut vineta egomet caedam mea,

i. e. carry my own hide to market, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 220 (proverbium in eos dicitur, qui sibi volentes nocent, Schol. Crucq.; cf. Tib. 1, 2, 98; Verg. A. 5, 672).—

Ruta caesa; v ruo, P. a.—

In gen., to strike upon something, to knock at, to beat, strike, cudgel, etc.:

ut lapidem ferro quom caedimus evolat ignis,

strike upon with iron, Lucr. 6, 314:

caedere januam saxis,

Cic. Verr 2, 1, 27, § 69:

silicem rostro,

Liv. 41, 13, 1:

vasa dolabris,

Curt. 5, 6, 5:

femur, pectus, frontem,

Quint. 2, 12, 10; cf. id. 11, 3, 123 al.:

verberibus,

Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 45; so Ter. And. 1, 2, 28:

pugnis,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, [p. 262] 43:

aliquem ex occulto,

Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 17:

at validis socios caedebant dentibus apri,

they fell with their strong tusks upon their own party, Lucr. 5, 1325; cf. Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 71:

virgis ad necem caedi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 28, § 69; Hor. S. 1, 2, 42:

populum saxis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 128:

ferulā aliquem,

id. ib. 1, 3, 120:

flagris,

Quint. 6, 3, 25:

aliquem loris,

Cic. Phil. 8, 8, 24; Suet. Ner. 26; 49; id. Dom. 8:

caeduntur (agrestes) inter potentium inimicitias,

Sall. H. Fragm. 3, 61, 27 Dietsch:

nudatos virgis,

Liv. 2, 5, 8:

hastilibus caedentes terga trepidantium,

id. 35, 5, 10:

servum sub furcā caesum medio egerat circo, i.e. ita ut simul caederet,

id. 2, 36, 1.—

Prov.:

stimulos pugnis caedere,

to kick against the pricks, to aggravate a danger by foolish resistance, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 55.—

Trop.:

in judicio testibus caeditur,

is pressed, hard pushed, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 3, 3.—

Pregn.

(Cf. cado, I. B. 2.) To strike mortally, to kill, murder:

ille dies, quo Ti. Gracchus est caesus,

Cic. Mil. 5, 14:

P. Africanus de Tiberio Graccho responderat jure caesum videri,

id. de Or. 2, 25, 106; id. Off. 2, 12, 43:

caeso Argo,

Ov. M. 2, 533; 5, 148; 12, 113; 12, 590; 12, 603; Suet. Caes. 76 al. — Poet., transf. to the blood shed in slaying:

caeso sparsuros sanguine flammam,

Verg. A. 11, 82.—Esp. freq.,

In milit. lang., to slay a single enemy; or, when a hostile army as a whole is spoken of, to conquer with great slaughter, to cut to pieces, vanquish, destroy (cf. Oud., Wolf, and Baumg.Crus. upon Suet. Vesp. 4):

exercitus caesus fususque,

Cic. Phil. 14, 1, 1:

Romani insecuti (hostem), caedentes spoliantesque caesos, castra regia diripiunt,

Liv. 32, 12, 10; 2, 47, 9:

infra arcem caesi captique multi mortales,

id. 4, 61, 6; 22, 7, 2 and 9; Quint. 12, 10, 24; Suet. Aug. 21; 23; id. Vesp. 4:

Indos,

Curt. 9, 5, 19:

passim obvios,

id. 5, 6, 6:

praesidium,

id. 4, 5, 17:

propugnatores reipublicae,

Quint. 12, 10, 24:

caesus (hostis) per calles saltusque vagando circumagatur,

Liv. 44, 36, 10 Kreyss.:

consulem exercitumque caesum,

id. 22, 56, 2:

legio-nes nostras cecidere,

id. 7, 30, 14; so Nep. Dat. 6, 4; Tac. Agr. 18; Suet. Claud. 1.— And poet., the leader is put for the army:

Pyrrhum et ingentem cecidit Antiochum Hannibalemque dirum,

Hor. C. 3, 6, 36.—In poet. hypallage:

caesi corporum acervi (for caesorum),

Cat. 64, 359.—

To slaughter animals, esp. for offerings, to kill, slay, sacrifice:

caedit greges armentorum,

Cic. Phil. 3, 12, 31:

boves,

Ov. M. 15, 141:

deorum mentes caesis hostiis placare,

Cic. Clu. 68, 194:

caesis victimis,

id. Att. 1, 13, 1; Liv. 8, 6, 11; 10, 7, 10; 45, 7, 1; Tac. A. 2, 75; Suet. Caes. 81; id. Calig. 14; id. Ner. 25; id. Oth. 8; id. Galb. 18; id. Claud. 25; Just. 11, 5, 6 al.; Verg. A. 5, 96; Hor. Epod. 2, 59; Ov.M.13, 637; Juv. 6, 48; 6, 447; 8, 156; 12, 3 al.: inter caesa et porrecta; v. porricio.—

Hence, since security for a person was anciently given by the deposit of sheep belonging to him, which were slaughtered in case of forfeiture, leg. t. t.: pignus caedere (or concidere), to declare the for feiture of a security, to confiscate a pledge: non tibi illa sunt caedenda, si L. Crassum vis coërcere, Crass. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 1, 4.—

In mal. part. ( = concido; cf.:

jam hoc, caede, concide: nonne vobis verba depromere videtur ad omne genus nequitiae accommodata?

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 66, § 155); Cat. 56, 7; Auct. Priap. 25, 10; Tert. Pall. 4.—

Trop.: caedere sermones, a Grecism, acc. to Prisc. 18, p. 1118 P., = koptein ta rhêmata, to chop words, chat, talk, converse, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 1; cf. Non. p. 272, 13, and Prisc. p. 1188 P.:

oratio caesa,

i. e. asyndeton, Auct. Her. 4, 19, 26; Aquil. Rom. §§ 18 and 19; Mart. Cap. 5; § 528.—Hence, caesum, i, n.; subst. in gram. synon. with comma, a stop, pause, comma, Mart. Cap. 5, § 527; Aquil. Rom. § 19; Fortun. Art. Rhet. 3, 10.

caedo, cĕcīdi (in MSS. freq. caecīdi, v. Neue, Formenl. 2, 460), caesum, 3, v. a. [root cīd- for scid-; cf. scindo; Gr. schizô].

Lit.

In gen.

To cut, hew, lop, cut down, fell, cut off, cut to pieces: caesa abiegna trabes, Enn. ap. Cic. N. D. 3, 30, 75 (Trag. v. 281 Vahl.):

frondem querneam caedito,

Cato, R. R. 5, 8:

arbores,

Cic. Div. 2, 14, 33; Ov. M. 9, 230:

robur,

Cic. Div. 2, 41, 86; Ov. M. 8, 769:

lignum,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 3. 63: silvam, Varr ap. Non. p. 272, 5; Lucr. 5, 1265; Caes. B. G. 3, 29; Ov. M. 8, 329; Suet. Aug. 94 fin.; Pall. Mai, 4, 1:

nemus,

Ov. M. 2, 418; cf. id. ib. 1, 94; 9, 230; 9, 374;

14, 535: harundinem,

Dig. 7, 1, 59, § 2:

arboris auctum,

Lucr. 6, 167:

comam vitis,

Tib. 1, 7, 34:

faenum,

Col. 2, 18, 1:

murus latius quam caederetur ruebat,

Liv. 21, 11, 9:

caesis montis fodisse medullis,

Cat. 68, 111; so,

caedi montis in marmora,

Plin. 12, prooem. §

2: lapis caedendus,

Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 56, § 147:

silicem,

id. Div. 2, 41, 85:

marmor,

Dig. 24, 3, 7, § 13:

toga rotunda et apte caesa,

cut out, Quint. 11, 3, 139: caedunt securibus umida vina, with axes they cut out the wine (formerly liquid, now frozen), Verg. G. 3, 364: volutas, to carve or hollow out volutes, Vitr. 3, 3: tineae omnia caedunt, Lucil. ap. Non. p. 272, 14.—

Prov.:

ut vineta egomet caedam mea,

i. e. carry my own hide to market, Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 220 (proverbium in eos dicitur, qui sibi volentes nocent, Schol. Crucq.; cf. Tib. 1, 2, 98; Verg. A. 5, 672).—

Ruta caesa; v ruo, P. a.—

In gen., to strike upon something, to knock at, to beat, strike, cudgel, etc.:

ut lapidem ferro quom caedimus evolat ignis,

strike upon with iron, Lucr. 6, 314:

caedere januam saxis,

Cic. Verr 2, 1, 27, § 69:

silicem rostro,

Liv. 41, 13, 1:

vasa dolabris,

Curt. 5, 6, 5:

femur, pectus, frontem,

Quint. 2, 12, 10; cf. id. 11, 3, 123 al.:

verberibus,

Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 45; so Ter. And. 1, 2, 28:

pugnis,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, [p. 262] 43:

aliquem ex occulto,

Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 17:

at validis socios caedebant dentibus apri,

they fell with their strong tusks upon their own party, Lucr. 5, 1325; cf. Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 71:

virgis ad necem caedi,

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 28, § 69; Hor. S. 1, 2, 42:

populum saxis,

id. ib. 2, 3, 128:

ferulā aliquem,

id. ib. 1, 3, 120:

flagris,

Quint. 6, 3, 25:

aliquem loris,

Cic. Phil. 8, 8, 24; Suet. Ner. 26; 49; id. Dom. 8:

caeduntur (agrestes) inter potentium inimicitias,

Sall. H. Fragm. 3, 61, 27 Dietsch:

nudatos virgis,

Liv. 2, 5, 8:

hastilibus caedentes terga trepidantium,

id. 35, 5, 10:

servum sub furcā caesum medio egerat circo, i.e. ita ut simul caederet,

id. 2, 36, 1.—

Prov.:

stimulos pugnis caedere,

to kick against the pricks, to aggravate a danger by foolish resistance, Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 55.—

Trop.:

in judicio testibus caeditur,

is pressed, hard pushed, Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 3, 3.—

Pregn.

(Cf. cado, I. B. 2.) To strike mortally, to kill, murder:

ille dies, quo Ti. Gracchus est caesus,

Cic. Mil. 5, 14:

P. Africanus de Tiberio Graccho responderat jure caesum videri,

id. de Or. 2, 25, 106; id. Off. 2, 12, 43:

caeso Argo,

Ov. M. 2, 533; 5, 148; 12, 113; 12, 590; 12, 603; Suet. Caes. 76 al. — Poet., transf. to the blood shed in slaying:

caeso sparsuros sanguine flammam,

Verg. A. 11, 82.—Esp. freq.,

In milit. lang., to slay a single enemy; or, when a hostile army as a whole is spoken of, to conquer with great slaughter, to cut to pieces, vanquish, destroy (cf. Oud., Wolf, and Baumg.Crus. upon Suet. Vesp. 4):

exercitus caesus fususque,

Cic. Phil. 14, 1, 1:

Romani insecuti (hostem), caedentes spoliantesque caesos, castra regia diripiunt,

Liv. 32, 12, 10; 2, 47, 9:

infra arcem caesi captique multi mortales,

id. 4, 61, 6; 22, 7, 2 and 9; Quint. 12, 10, 24; Suet. Aug. 21; 23; id. Vesp. 4:

Indos,

Curt. 9, 5, 19:

passim obvios,

id. 5, 6, 6:

praesidium,

id. 4, 5, 17:

propugnatores reipublicae,

Quint. 12, 10, 24:

caesus (hostis) per calles saltusque vagando circumagatur,

Liv. 44, 36, 10 Kreyss.:

consulem exercitumque caesum,

id. 22, 56, 2:

legio-nes nostras cecidere,

id. 7, 30, 14; so Nep. Dat. 6, 4; Tac. Agr. 18; Suet. Claud. 1.— And poet., the leader is put for the army:

Pyrrhum et ingentem cecidit Antiochum Hannibalemque dirum,

Hor. C. 3, 6, 36.—In poet. hypallage:

caesi corporum acervi (for caesorum),

Cat. 64, 359.—

To slaughter animals, esp. for offerings, to kill, slay, sacrifice:

caedit greges armentorum,

Cic. Phil. 3, 12, 31:

boves,

Ov. M. 15, 141:

deorum mentes caesis hostiis placare,

Cic. Clu. 68, 194:

caesis victimis,

id. Att. 1, 13, 1; Liv. 8, 6, 11; 10, 7, 10; 45, 7, 1; Tac. A. 2, 75; Suet. Caes. 81; id. Calig. 14; id. Ner. 25; id. Oth. 8; id. Galb. 18; id. Claud. 25; Just. 11, 5, 6 al.; Verg. A. 5, 96; Hor. Epod. 2, 59; Ov.M.13, 637; Juv. 6, 48; 6, 447; 8, 156; 12, 3 al.: inter caesa et porrecta; v. porricio.—

Hence, since security for a person was anciently given by the deposit of sheep belonging to him, which were slaughtered in case of forfeiture, leg. t. t.: pignus caedere (or concidere), to declare the for feiture of a security, to confiscate a pledge: non tibi illa sunt caedenda, si L. Crassum vis coërcere, Crass. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 1, 4.—

In mal. part. ( = concido; cf.:

jam hoc, caede, concide: nonne vobis verba depromere videtur ad omne genus nequitiae accommodata?

Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 66, § 155); Cat. 56, 7; Auct. Priap. 25, 10; Tert. Pall. 4.—

Trop.: caedere sermones, a Grecism, acc. to Prisc. 18, p. 1118 P., = koptein ta rhêmata, to chop words, chat, talk, converse, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 1; cf. Non. p. 272, 13, and Prisc. p. 1188 P.:

oratio caesa,

i. e. asyndeton, Auct. Her. 4, 19, 26; Aquil. Rom. §§ 18 and 19; Mart. Cap. 5; § 528.—Hence, caesum, i, n.; subst. in gram. synon. with comma, a stop, pause, comma, Mart. Cap. 5, § 527; Aquil. Rom. § 19; Fortun. Art. Rhet. 3, 10.

castro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [Sanscr. çastra, knife, sword].

To deprive of generative power (both of male and female), to emasculate, castrate, geld:

hircum,

Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 1 and 4:

agnum,

Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 18:

gallos,

id. ib. 3, 9, 3; Curt. 6, 3, 12; Val. Max. 6, 1, 13; Suet. Dom. 7:

sues,

Plin. 8, 51, 77, § 208; 10, 21, 25, § 50; 11, 51, 112, § 261 al.—

Transf. to plants, to prune, lop, trim, Cato, R. R. 33, 2; Plin. 17, 20, 33, § 144; 24, 8, 33, § 49.—

Trop.: vina saccis, to pass through a sack or bag, to filter, Plin. 19, 4, 19, § 53; cf. id. 14, 22, 28, § 138 sq.:

siligo castrata,

i. e. cleaned, id. 18, 9, 20, § 86:

semen,

id. 15, 14, 15, § 51.—

In gen., to shorten, cut off, curtail:

caudas catulorum,

Col. 7, 12, 14; cf. Plin. 8, 41, 63, § 153:

alvos apum,

to take up, to take out the honey, Col. 9, 15, 4; 9, 15, 11; cf.:

castrare alvearia,

Pall. 7, 7.—

Trop., to enervate, debilitate: castrata res publica morte Africani, weakened (a vulgar figure, acc. to Cic. de Or. 3, 41, 164; Quint. 8, 6, 15):

nisi illum (Maecenatem) enervasset felicitas, immo castrasset,

Sen. Ep. 19, 9:

libellos,

to remove obscenity, to expurgate, Mart. 1, 35, 14:

vires,

to diminish, Plin. 11, 18, 19, § 60:

avaritiam,

to check, restrain, Claud. Eutr. 1, 192.

circum-cīdo, cīdi, cīsum, 3, v. a. [caedo], to cut around, cut, clip, trim (orig. in agriculture;

syn.: amputo, reseco): ars agricolarum, quae circumcidat, amputet, erigat, etc.,

Cic. Fin. 5, 14, 39:

gemmam acuto scalpello circumcidito... ejusdem spatii corticem circumcidito,

Col. Arb. 26, 8; 12, 36:

latera scrobis,

id. 5, 9, 9:

arbores ad medullam,

Plin. 16, 39, 74, § 191:

aciem,

Lucr. 3, 412:

caespitem gladiis,

Caes. B. G. 5, 42:

ungues,

Cels. 7, 26, 2:

volnus,

Plin. 25, 5, 25, § 61:

genitalia (Judaeorum),

to circumcise, Tac. H. 5, 5; cf. Petr. 102, 14; Gell. 17, 15, 7; Cels. 7, 25 init. —

Trop., to cut off, shorten, diminish, abridge, circumscribe (very freq. in prose;

syn.: amputo, reseco, demo, aufero): testatur saepe Chrysippus, tres solas esse sententias, quae defendi possint, de finibus bonorum: circumcidit et amputat multitudinem,

Cic. Ac. 2, 45, 138;

so with amputo,

id. de Or. 1, 15, 65; id. Fin. 1, 13, 44:

sumptus circumcisi aut sublati,

Liv. 32, 27, 4; so,

impensam funeri,

Phaedr. 4, 19, 25:

circumcisā omni negotiosā actione,

Cels. 4, 25:

circumcidendum vinum est in totum annum,

to be abstained from, id. 4, 20.—Of discourse, to lop or cut off, to remove:

circumcisis rebus, quae non arbitror pertinere ad agriculturam,

Varr. R. R. 1, 1, 11:

circumcidat, si quid redundabit,

Quint. 10, 2, 28; 4, 2, 42 Spald.:

(oratio) rotunda et undique circumcisa,

id. 8, 5, 27; 10, 1, 104:

ineptas quaestiones,

Sen. Contr. 2, 11.—Hence, cir-cumcīsus, a, um, P. a., lit. cut off around, cut off; hence,

Of localities = abscisus, abruptus, cut off from connection with the region around, steep, precipitous, inaccessible:

saxum,

Cic. Rep. 2, 6, 11:

Henna ab omni aditu circumcisa atque directa,

id. Verr. 2, 4, 48, § 107:

collis ex omni parte circumcisus,

Caes. B. G. 7, 36. —

Trop., abridged, short, brief (so prob. not before the Aug. per.):

quid enim tam circumcisum, tam breve, quam hominis vita longissima?

Plin. Ep. 3, 7, 11.—Of discourse:

circumcisae orationes et breves,

Plin. Ep. 1, 20, 4; cf.

supra,

Quint. 8, 5, 27. — Adv.: circumcīsē, briefly:

rem ante oculos ponere circumcise atque velociter,

Quint. 8, 3, 81; * Suet. Rhet. 6; Macr. 5, 1.

con-sĕco, cŭi, ctum, 1, v. a. (rare; not in Cic.).

To cut up, cut to pieces:

brassicam,

Cato, R. R. 157:

nasturtium minutatim,

Varr. R. R. 3, 10, 6:

rapa,

id. ib. 1, 59, 4:

membra fratris (Medea),

Ov. Tr. 3, 9, 34:

genas,

to lacerate, Petr. 137, 4.—

In Pliny, to cut off, lop, prune:

surculos,

Plin. 12, 19, 43, § 96:

truncum arboris,

id. 17, 10, 9, § 58; 36, 26, 66, § 193.

dē-trunco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to lop or cut off (rare, and perh. not ante-Aug.).

Prop.:

arbores,

Liv. 21, 37:

superiorem partem,

Col. 5, 6, 13:

alam regi apium,

Plin. 11, 17, 17, § 54:

caput,

Ov. M. 8, 770 al. —

Transf. to the body from which a member is cut off, to mutilate, maim, behead:

gladio detruncata corpora bracchiis abscisis,

Liv. 31, 34:

aliquem,

Val. Fl. 3, 145; cf.:

Dalmatas incensa urbe quasi detruncaverat,

Flor. 4, 12, 11.

ex-pŭto, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.

To lop off, to prune, to crop:

veteranam vitem,

Col. 3, 15, 3; 5, 6, 31:

palos,

id. 11, 2, 12.—

Trop.

To consider well, to examine:

utramque rem simul,

Plaut. Trin. 2, 1, 8:

id exputando evolvere,

Auct. Her. 2, 26, 42.—

To fathom, comprehend: quae mens eum aut quorum consilia a tanta gloria avocarint, exputare non possum, Planc. ap. Cic. Fam. 10, 24, 6.