the guilt of shedding blood

sanguis, ĭnis (acc. SANGVEM, Inscr. Fratr. Arval. tab. 41, 22; Inscr. Orell. 2270 and 5054; cf. ex-sanguis, acc. -em.— Neutr. collat. form sanguen, ante-class., Enn. ap. Non. 224; id.ap.Cic.Rep. 1, 41, 64; id.ap.Cic. Fin. 5, 11, 31; Cic. de Or. 3, 58, 218; id. ap. Prisc. p. 708 P.; Cato ap. Gell. 3, 7, 19; Att. and Varr. ap. Non. l. l.; Lucr. 1, 837; 1, 860; Petr. 59, 1; Arn. 1, 36), m. [etym. dub.; prob. root sak-, sag-, to drop, flow; cf. Angl.-Sax. sūc-an; Germ. saugen], blood (class. only in the sing.; cf. cruor).

Lit.:

guttam haut habeo sanguinis,

Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 76: quod sanguen defluxerat, Cato ap. Gell. 3, 7, 19:

sine sanguine hoc fieri non posse,

bloodshed, Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 9:

sanguen creari,

Lucr. 1, 837:

nobis venas et sanguen...esse,

id. 1, 860:

in quem (ventriculum cordis) sanguis a jecore per venam illam cavam influit: eoque modo ex his partibus sanguis per venas in omne corpus diffunditur,

Cic. N. D. 2, 55, 138:

fluvius Atratus sanguine,

id. Div. 1, 43, 98:

flumine sanguinis meum reditum interclu, dendum putaverunt,

id. Red. ad Quir. 5, 14; id. Red. in Sen. 3, 6:

nuntiatum est, in foro Subertano sanguinis rivos per totum diem fluxisse,

Liv. 26, 23, 5:

cum rivi sanguis flammam orientem restinguere,

id. 28, 23, 2: pugnatum ingenti caede utrimque, [p. 1627] plurimo sanguine, Liv. 2, 64: haurire sanguinem, to shed (another's) blood:

ad meum sanguinem hauriendum advolaverunt,

Cic. Sest. 24, 54:

tanti sanguinis nostri hauriendi est sitis,

Liv. 26, 13, 14:

nisi hauriendum sanguinem laniendaque viscera nostra praebuerimus,

id. 9, 1, 9:

relicum sanguinem jubentes haurire,

id. 22, 51, 7:

multum sanguinem invicem hausimus,

Curt. 4, 14, 17:

multorum sanguinem hauserunt,

Sen. Ben. 6, 30, 5; Lact. 5, 1, 8: sanguinem dare, to shed (one's own) blood, give (one's) life:

in beluas strinximus ferrum, hauriendus aut dandus est sanguis,

Liv. 7, 24, 4:

dandus invidiae est sanguis,

id. 3, 54, 4:

quid super sanguinis, qui dari pro re publicā posset, rogitantes,

id. 4, 58, 13; Sen. Ira, 1, 2, 2; 3, 18, 2:

sanguinem mittere,

to bleed, let blood, Cic. Att. 6, 1, 2; so Cels. 2, 10; 4, 13;

for which: emittere sanguinem de aure,

Col. 6, 14, 3:

sub caudā,

id. 7, 5, 19; 6, 6, 4; 6, 9, 1:

demere (e capite),

Varr. R. R. 2, 1, 23:

detrahere (ex auriculā),

Col. 6, 14, 3; Cels. 2, 10, 4; 6, 6, 26:

ex adversā parte de auriculā sanguinem mittere,

Col. 7, 10, 2:

supprimere sanguinem,

to stanch, stop, Cels. 2, 10;

for which: cohibere,

id. 8, 4; Plin. 22, 25, 71, § 147:

sistere,

id. 20, 7, 25, § 59; 28, 18, 73, § 239.—

Plur. (late Lat.):

vir sanguinum,

i. e. bloody, violent, cruel, Vulg. 2 Reg. 16, 7, 8; id. Psa. 5, 6; 25, 9; 54, 23; cf.:

libera me de sanguinibus,

i. e. the guilt of shedding blood, id. ib. 50, 15:

vae civitati sanguinum,

id. Ezech. 24, 9.—

Transf. (class.; esp. freq. in the poets).

Blood, i. e. consanguinity, descent, race, stock, family.

Abstr.:

sanguine conjuncti,

blood-relations, relatives by blood, Cic. Inv. 2, 53, 161; Sall. J. 10, 3:

alicui materno a sanguine jungi,

Ov. M. 2, 368:

alicui sanguine cohaerere,

Quint. 8, 3, 75:

progeniem Trojano a sanguine duci,

Verg. A. 1, 19; cf.:

genus alto a sanguine Teucri,

id. ib. 4, 230:

Semiramio Polydaemona sanguine cretum,

Ov. M. 5, 85:

sanguine cretus Sisyphio,

id. ib. 13, 31:

nostri quoque sanguinis auctor Juppiter est,

id. ib. 13, 142:

nec iis tantum quos sanguine attingit amandus,

Plin. Ep. 7, 24, 2:

sanguinem sociare,

Liv. 4, 4, 6:

Tiridates sanguinis ejusdem,

Tac. A. 6, 32.—

Concr., a descendant, offspring: o pater, o genitor, o sanguen dis oriundum! Enn. ap. Cic. Rep. 1, 41, 64; and id. ap. Prisc. p. 708 P. (Ann. v. 117 Vahl.); cf.:

non magis in alienis, quam in proximis ac sanguine ipso suo exerceret,

Liv. 7, 4, 3:

in suum sanguinem saevire,

id. 40, 5, 1:

Alexandri sanguis et stirps,

Curt. 10, 6, 10:

suum sanguinem perditum ire,

Tac. A. 4, 66; 3, 4:

ne secus quam suum sanguinem (eum) foveret ac tolleret,

id. ib. 4, 8; Vell. 1, 10, 5; Val. Max. 5, 9, 4:

seu deos regesve canit, deorum Sanguinem, etc.,

Hor. C. 4, 2, 14: clarus Anchisae Venerisque sanguis (i. e. Æneas), id. C. S. 50: regius sanguis (i. e. Europa), id. C. 3, 27, 65: vos, o Pompilius sanguis (i. e. the Pisos), id. A. P. 292:

non ego, pauperum Sanguis parentum,

id. C. 2, 20, 6:

pro sanguine tuo,

Ov. M. 5, 515:

sanguis meus,

Verg. A. 6, 836:

tuus,

Tib. 1, 6, 66; Stat. Th. 3, 559.—

Of other fluids (rare):

et viridis nemori sanguis decedit et herbis,

Manil. 5, 212:

Baccheus,

i. e. wine, Stat. Th. 1, 329; cf. Plin. 14, 5, 7, § 58:

Pallas amat turgentes sanguine baccas,

Nemes. Ecl. 2, 50.—

Trop., vigor, strength, force, spirit, life (class.), Plaut. Bacch. 1, 2, 45:

amisimus, mi Pomponi, omnem non modo sucum ac sanguinem, sed etiam colorem et speciem pristinam civitatis,

Cic. Att. 4, 18, 2 (4, 16, 10); cf.

Sall. Fragm. Or. Lepidi, § 25: vos o, quibus integer aevi Sanguis, ait, solidaeque suo stant robore vires,

Verg. A. 2, 639: quae cum de sanguine detraxisset aerarii, had bled the treasury (the figure taken from blood-letting), Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 36, § 83; cf.: cum ex aphaireseôs provinciam curarit, sanguinem miserit, etc., id. Att. 6, 1, 2:

missus est sanguis invidiae sine dolore,

id. ib. 1, 16, 11:

qui ab illo pestifero ac perdito civi jam pridem rei publicae sanguine saginantur,

id. Sest. 36, 78; cf.:

illa in agendis causis jam detrita: Jugulum petere et Sanguinem mittere...nec offendunt tamen,

Quint. 8, 6, 51.—Of vigor, force of style:

sucus ille et sanguis incorruptus usque ad hanc aetatem oratorum fuit, in quā naturalis inesset, non fucatus nitor,

Cic. Brut. 9, 36: orationis subtilitas etsi non plurimi sanguinis est, etc., id. Or. 23, 76:

sanguine et viribus niteat,

Quint. 8, 3, 6; so (with vires) id. 10, 2, 12:

Calvus metuens, ne vitiosum colligeret, etiam verum sanguinem deperdebat,

Cic. Brut. 82, 283:

dicta plena sanguinis,

Quint. 11, 1, 34:

sanguinem ipsum ac medullam verborum ejus eruere atque introspicere penitus,

Gell. 18, 4, 2.