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  • 1 rōdō

        rōdō sī, sus, ere    [1 RAD-], to gnaw: clipeos (mures): dente pollicem, H.: saxa capellae, O.— To eat away, waste away, corrode, consume: ferrum (robigo), O.—Fig., to backbite, slander, disparage: in conviviis rodunt: libertino patre natum, H.
    * * *
    rodere, rosi, rosus V
    gnaw, peck

    Latin-English dictionary > rōdō

  • 2 obrodo

    ob-rōdo, ĕre, v. a., to gnaw (ante- and post-class. for mordeo).
    I.
    Lit.:

    vermis te semper obrodit,

    Ambros. Tob. 7, § 26:

    ut quod obrodat sit,

    Plaut. Am. 2, 2, 92.—
    II.
    Trop., to gnaw over, chew upon; to backbite, depreciate:

    haec sunt argumentationis ossa, quae obroditis,

    Tert. adv. Marc. 2, 5 init.:

    sacrilego morsu pretiosum fidei velamen obrodunt,

    Ambros. Spir. Sanct. 1, 16, 164:

    frequenter obrodi a maledicis obtrectatoribus,

    id. in Psa. 118, Serm. 8, 36.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > obrodo

  • 3 rodo

    rōdo, si, sum, 3, v. a. [cf. rado], to gnaw (class.).
    I.
    Lit.: rutabulum, Novat. ap. Fest. p. 262 Müll. (Com. Rel. p. 226 Rib.):

    clipeos, etc. (mures),

    Cic. Div. 2, 27, 59: praetextam, Poët. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 19:

    dente pollicem,

    Hor. Epod. 5, 48:

    vivos ungues,

    id. S. 1, 10, 71:

    vitem (caper),

    Ov. F. 1, 357:

    saxa capellae,

    id. M. 13, 691:

    reliquias (mures),

    Phaedr. 1, 22, 6:

    rosus tineis,

    Stat. S. 4, 9, 10. —
    B.
    Transf., to eat away, waste away, corrode, consume:

    ripas (flumina),

    Lucr. 5, 256:

    ferrum (robigo),

    Ov. P. 1, 1, 71:

    tophum (calx),

    Plin. 36, 22, 48, § 166. —
    II.
    Trop., to backbite, slander, disparage, etc. (syn. vellico):

    in conviviis rodunt,

    Cic. Balb. 26, 57:

    absentem amicum,

    Hor. S. 1, 4, 81:

    libertino patre natum,

    id. ib. 1, 6, 46:

    cuncta robiginosis dentibus,

    Mart. 5, 28, 7; cf.:

    dentem dente,

    i. e. to speak ill of each other, id. 13, 2, 6: murmura secum et rabiosa silentia rodunt, i. e. to mutter to one ' s self, Pers. 3, 81.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > rodo

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