About

Menu

corruptela

corruptela, a corrupting, corruption, seduction, bribery

Could not find corruptelam in Logeion dictionaries.

corruptelam Noun: feminine accusative singular of corruptela

See corruptelam in Morpho

corruptēla (conr-), ante-class. also corrumptēla, ae, f. [corrumpo], that which corrupts, a corrupting, corruption, seduction, bribery, etc.
  • I Prop. (freq. and class. in sing. and plur.): mores hac (sc. cantūs) dulcedine corruptelaque depravati, Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 38: collapsus est hic in corruptelam suam, Plaut. Truc. 3, 2, 3 (671): quem (adulescentulum) corruptelarum illecebris irretisses, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 13: stupra dico et corruptelas et adulteria, id. Tusc. 4, 35, 75; cf. Suet. Claud. 16: via una corruptelae Bacchanalia erant, Liv. 39, 9, 3: malae consuetudinis (gen. subj.), Cic. Leg. 1, 12, 33: mulierum (gen. obj.), Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 134; cf. servi, id. Deiot. 11, 30.—
  • II Meton. (abstr. pro concreto).
    • A A corrupter, seducer, misleader: nostrūm liberūm, Ter. Ad. 793: is apud scortum corrumptelast liberis, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 17 (867).—*
    • B A place of seduction, Front. Aquaed. 76.

Saved

Recent