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1 sordeo
sordĕo, ēre, v. n. [cf. Goth. svarts; Germ. schwarz, black], to be dirty, filthy, foul (rare; not in Cic.; syn. squaleo).I.Lit.: Di. Jam lavisti? Ph. Num tibi sordere videor? Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 28: cui manus materno sordet sparsa sanguine, Att. ap. Non. 170, 6:II.non splendeat toga: ne sordeat quidem,
Sen. Ep. 5, 2:nullā teneri lanugine vultus,
Mart. 1, 32, 5:Albanoque cadum sordentem promere fumo,
Stat. S. 4, 8, 39:incola sordentium ganearum,
Gell. 9, 2, 6.—Trop., to be mean, base, low, or sordid: haud sordere visus est Festus dies, i. e. had nothing mean or sordid in its appearance, Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 6: convivium inopiā, Favor. ap. Gell. 15, 8, 20:B.ignobilia et sordentia (verba),
low, vulgar, Gell. 19, 13, 3 (shortly before, sordidum verbum).—Transf., to seem base or paltry; to be despised, slighted, or held of no account:suis sordere (with contemni),
Liv. 4, 25, 11; Quint. 8, prooem. §26: sordent tibi munera nostra,
Verg. E. 2, 44; Stat. S. 1, 3, 98:cunctane prae campo sordent?
Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 4:pretium aetas altera sordet,
a renewal of youth seems too small a price, id. ib. 1, 18, 18:quippe sordent prima quaeque, cum majora sperantur,
Curt. 10, 10, 8:si conferas et componas Graeca ipsa, oppido quam jacere atque sordere incipiunt, quae Latina sunt,
to seem paltry, of small account, Gell. 2, 23, 3.
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