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crucio

crucio, to put to the rack

crŭcĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [crux].
  • Orig., to put to death on the cross, to crucify (only in eccl. Lat.), Lact. Mort. Pers. 2, 1.—
  • II In gen., to put to the rack, to torture, torment (freq. and class., esp. in the signif. B.).
    • A Physically: cum vigiliis et fame cruciaretur, Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 65: tribunos militum verberatos servilibusque omnibus suppliciis cruciatos trucidando occidit, Liv. 29, 18, 14 Drak. N. cr.: cum cruciabere dirae Sanguine serpentis, Ov. M. 2, 651: cruciataque diris Corpora tormentis, id. ib. 3, 694 al.: qui advehuntur quadrupedanti crucianti canterio, i. e. torturing the rider by its uneasy motion, Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 34 (814).—
      • 2 Transf. of inanimate things: terra ferro, ligno, igni, lapide, fruge omnibus cruciatur horis, Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 157; so, aes cruciatur in primis accensumque restinguitur sale, id. 33, 3, 20, § 65.—
    • B Mentally.
          • α Act.: graviter adulescentulum, Ter. Heaut. 1045; id. Eun. 384; Hor. S. 1, 10, 78 al.: officii me deliberatio cruciat cruciavitque adhuc, Cic. Att. 8, 15, 2: ut ipsus sese cruciat aegritudine! Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 89 (493): ne crucia te, obsecro, anime mi, Ter. Eun. 95; cf. Hor. S. 1, 2, 22: quos major sollicitudo cruciat, Just. 6, 3, 9: illud me cruciat, quod, etc., Mart. 11, 94, 5. —So pass.: tanto dolore cruciatus est, Just. 12, 13, 9.—
          • β Medial (only in Plaut. and Ter.), to afflict one's self, to grieve, be afflicted: ut miserae matres cruciantur! Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 2 (449); cf.: crucior miser, Ter. And. 851; with acc. and inf.: crucior me lapidem non habere, ut, etc., Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 68 (600); Ter. Heaut. 673; and with acc. of neutr. pron.: istuc crucior, a viro me tali abalienarier, Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 11 (1321); id. Trin. 5, 2, 46 (1170).

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