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trees stripped of their branches

  • 1 truncus

    1.
    truncus, a, um, adj [root tark-, truc-, to break, tear; cf. torqueo], maimed, mutilated, mangled, dismembered, disfigured, deprived of some of its parts (mostly poet. and perh. not ante-Aug.; syn.: mutilus, mancus).
    I.
    Lit.:

    trunca manu pinus regit (Polyphemum),

    i. e. the trunk of a pinetree, Verg. A. 3, 659:

    trunca illa et retorrida manus Mucii,

    Sen. Ep. 66, 51:

    nemora,

    i. e. trees stripped of their branches, Stat. Th. 4, 455:

    truncas mhonesto vulnere nares,

    Verg. A. 6, 497:

    vultus naribus auribusque,

    Mart. 2, 83, 3:

    frons,

    deprived of its horn, Ov. M. 9, 1; 9, 86; Sil. 3, 42:

    frontem lumina truncam,

    deprived of its eyes, id. 9, 400:

    bracchia non habuit, truncoque repandus in undas Corpore desiluit,

    deprived of its limbs, Ov. M. 3, 680; cf. Just. 2, 9, 19:

    puerum trunci corporis in agro Romano natum,

    Liv. 41, 9, 5:

    varie ex integris truncos gigni, ex truncis integros,

    Plin. 7, 11, 10, § 50:

    tela,

    i.e. broken in pieces, Verg. A. 11, 9; cf.:

    trunci enses et fractae hastae,

    Stat. Th. 2, 711:

    truncum lignum, i. e. hasta fracta,

    Val. Fl. 6, 251: membra carmae, Ov M. 11, 560; cf.

    alnus,

    without oars, Val. Fl. 2, 300:

    truncae atque mutilae litterae,

    Gell. 17, 9, 12:

    exta,

    Val. Max. 1, 6, 9.—
    (β).
    Poet., with gen.:

    animalia trunca pedum,

    without feet, Verg. G. 4, 310: truncus capitis, Sil 10, 311.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    Of things, not developed, imperfect, or wanting in their parts:

    quaedam imperfecta (animalia) suisque Trunca vident numeris,

    Ov. M. 1, 428:

    ranae pedibus,

    id. ib. 15, 376:

    ipse (nanus) jactabat truncas manus,

    Prop. 4 (5), 8, 42—
    2.
    Of members cut off:

    bracchia,

    Val. Fl. 4, 181:

    manus,

    Sen. Contr 1, 4.—
    II.
    Trop., maimed, mutilated:

    (Capua) urbs trunca, sine senatu, sine plebe, sine magistratibus,

    Liv. 31, 29, 11:

    pecus,

    without a leader, Stat. Th. 5, 333:

    manus vero, sine quibus trunca esset actio ac debilis, vix dici potest, quot motus habeant,

    Quint. 11, 3, 85:

    trunca et debilis medicina (sine rerum naturae cognitione), Cels. praef.: sermo (volucrum),

    Stat. Th. 12, 478:

    trunca quaedam ex Menandro,

    fragments, Gell. 2, 23, 21.—Hence, subst.:
    2.
    truncus, i, m., the stem, stock, bole, or trunk of a tree (without regard to its branches).
    I.
    Lit.:

    cibus... Per truncos ac per ramos diffunditur omnes,

    Lucr. 1, 353:

    quid? in arboribus, in quibus non truncus, non rami, non folia sunt denique, nisi, etc.,

    Cic. de Or. 3, 46, 179; cf. id. Sen. 15, 52; id. N. D. 2, 47, 120; id. Lael. 13, 48; Caes. B. G. 4, 17; 7, 73, Verg. G. 2, 78; 3, 233; Hor S. 1, 8, 1; id. C. 2, 17, 27; 3, 4, 55; Ov. M. 2, 358; 8, 346; id. H. 9, 93; Col. Arb. 17, 1; Sen. Ep. 86, 17.—
    B.
    Transf.
    1.
    Of the human body, the trunk, the body, apart from the limbs:

    status erectus et celsus, nullā mollitiā cervicum: trunco magis toto se ipse moderans,

    Cic. Or. 18, 59:

    nemo illum ex trunco corporis spectabat,

    id. Rosc. Com. 10, 28:

    recto pugnat se attollere trunco,

    Ov. M. 2, 822; cf. id. ib. 7, 640:

    et caput abscisum calido viventeque trunco,

    Lucr. 3, 654: jacet litore truncus. Verg. A. 2, 557.—
    2.
    Of a column.
    (α).
    The shaft, Vitr. 4, 1 med. —
    (β).
    The cubical trunk of a pedestal, the die or dado, Vitr. 3, 3; cf. Plin. 16, 40, 76, § 201.—
    3.
    A piece cut off, as a branch of a tree for an our:

    frondentes,

    Val. Fl. 8, 287;

    a piece of flesh for smoking (cf. trunculus),

    Verg. M. 57.—
    4.
    Like caudex, stipes, and the Engl. stock, for blockhead, dunce, dolt:

    quī potest esse in ejusmodi trunco sapientia?

    Cic. N. D. 1, 30, 84:

    tamquam truncus atque stipes,

    id. Pis. 9, 19. —
    * II.
    Trop., a trunk, stem:

    quae (stirpes aegritudinis) ipso trunco everso omnes eligendae (elidendae, Kühn.) sunt,

    Cic. Tusc. 3, 34, 83.

    Lewis & Short latin dictionary > truncus

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