si+plane+is+abhorret

ăb-horrĕo, ui, ēre, 2, v. n. and a., to shrink back from a thing, to shudder at, abhor.

Lit. (syn. aversor; rare but class.); constr. with ab or absol., sometimes with the acc. (not so in Cicero; cf.

Haase ad Reisig Vorles. p. 696): retro volgus abhorret ab hac,

shrinks back from, Lucr. 1, 945; 4, 20:

omnes aspernabantur, omnes abhorrebant, etc.,

Cic. Clu. 14, 41:

quid tam abhorret hilaritudo?

Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 56:

pumilos atque distortos,

Suet. Aug. 83; so id. Galb. 4; Vit. 10.

Transf., in gen.

To be averse or disinclined to a thing, not to wish it, usu. with ab:

a nuptiis,

Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 92:

ab re uxoriā,

id. And. 5, 1, 10;

and so often in Cic.: Caesaris a causā,

Cic. Sest. 33:

a caede,

id. ib. 63:

ab horum turpitudine, audaciā, sordibus,

id. ib. 52, 112:

a scribendo abhorret animus,

id. Att. 2, 6:

animo abhorruisse ab optimo statu civitatis,

id. Phil. 7, 2:

a ceterorum consilio,

Nep. Milt. 3, 5 al.

In a yet more general sense, to be remote from an object, i. e. to vary or differ from, to be inconsistent or not to agree with (freq. and class.):

temeritas tanta, ut non procul abhorreat ab insaniā,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 24, 68:

a vulgari genere orationis atque a consuetudine communis sensus,

id. de Or. 1, 3, 12:

oratio abhorrens a personā hominis gravissimi,

id. Rep. 1, 15:

ab opinione tuā,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 20: Punicum abhorrens os ab Latinorum nominum prolatione, Liv. 22, 13; so id. 29, 6; 30, 44:

a fide,

to be incredible, id. 9, 36:

a tuo scelere,

is not connected with, Cic. Cat. 1, 7 al. —Hence, like dispar, with dat.:

tam pacatae profectioni abhorrens mos,

not accordant with, Liv. 2, 14.—

To be free from:

Caelius longe ab istā suspicione abhorrere debet,

Cic. Cael. 4.—

To alter:

tantum abhorret ac mutat,

alters and changes, Cat. 22, 11.—

To be unfit:

sin plane abhorrebit et erit absurdus,

Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 85; cf.:

absurdae atque abhorrentes lacrimae,

Liv. 30, 44, 6; and:

carmen abhorrens et inconditum,

id. 27, 37, 13.