contrucido
contrucido, to cut to pieces, cut down, put to the sword
con-trŭcīdo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a., to hew or cut to pieces, to cut down, to put to the sword, slay (rare, but in good prose).
- I Prop.: debilitato corpore et contrucidato se abjecit exanimatus (cf., shortly after, concisum vulneribus), Cic. Sest. 37, 79; so, plebem immisso milite, Sen. Ira, 1, 2, 3: universos, Suet. Calig. 28; cf. id. ib. 48; id. Ner. 43 al.: taurorum opima corpora, Sen. Ep. 115, 5: bestias ad munus populi comparatas, Suet. Caes. 75.—*
- II Trop.: hi summi imperii nomine armati rem publicam contrucidaverunt, cut in pieces, Cic. Sest. 10, 24 (v. the figure in connection).
con-trucīdo, āvī, ātum, āre, abschlachten, abstechen, niederstechen, a) im engern Sinne, taurorum opima corpora, Sen.: bestias, Suet.: iugulum sibi multis ictibus, Apul. met. 9, 38. – b) im weitern Sinne, Menschen ähnlich wie das Vieh niederstechen, niederstoßen, niedermetzeln, zusammenhauen, septem milia civium Romanorum, Sen.: universos exules, Suet.: plebem immisso milite, Sen.: alqm septem vulneribus, Suet.: debilitato corpore et contrucidato, Cic. Sest. 79: u. (im Bilde) rem publicam, hinschlachten, Cic. Sest. 24.
contrŭcīdō, (12) āvī, ātum, āre, tr., ¶ 1 massacrer, égorger ensemble, en bloc : Suet. Cal. 28 ; Sen. Ep. 115, 5 ¶ 2 accabler de coups [une seule pers.] : Cic. Sest. 79 ; [fig.] rempublicam Cic. Sest. 24, ruiner lʼÉtat.
- 1. inhakken op, afmaken (m. acc.) [plebem; corpus; bestias];
- 2. (metaf.) in het verderf storten, vernietigen [rem publicam].
con-trucīdō āvī, ātus, are,
- to cut to pieces, cut down, put to the sword: corpore contrucidato.— Fig.: rem p.