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                    "description": "(verb) = στραγγαλάω: strangŭlo, āvi, ātum, 1, , =  (cf. Varr. L. L. 6, § 96 Müll.)\n* To throttle, choke; and, in gen., to stifle, suffocate, strangle (syn. suffoco).\n* Lit. (class.): Domitium strangulavit, Cael. ap. Cic. Fam. 8, 15 fin.: strangulata laqueo,Tac. A. 6, 25: strangulatus in carcere,Plin. Ep. 2, 11, 8; Flor. 4, 1, 10: venena quae strangulando necant,Plin. 20, 7, 26, § 63: obesi difficultate spirandi strangulantur,Cels. 2, 1 fin.: piro strangulatus,Suet. Claud. 27: strangulatae in oleo ranae,Plin. 32, 10, 38, § 114: cuniculos vapore,id. 33, 4, 21, § 71: ne nimio sanguine stranguletur pecus,Col. 6, 38, 4; Cels. 4, 4: volvam strangulati,Plin. 22, 13, 15, § 32: sinus (togae) nec strangulet nec fluat,too closely drawn together,Quint. 11, 3, 140.—In an obscene double sense: si dicimus, Ille patrem strangulavit, honorem non praefamur. Sin de Aureliā aliquid aut Lolliā, honos praefandus est, * Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 4.\n* Transf., of things: hedera arbores sugit et strangulat, chokes, i. e. kills, makes unfruitful, Plin. 16, 34, 62, § 152: truncum,Col. 4, 26, 2: sata,Quint. 8, prooem. § 23:  solum,Plin. 17, 8, 4, § 46: fauces tumentes strangulant vocem,choke, stifle, constrain,Quint. 11, 3, 20; so, sonitum,Plin. 2, 43, 43, § 113.—Poet.: non tibi sepositas infelix strangulat arca Divitias,i. e. contains,Stat. S. 2, 2, 150.\n* Trop., to torment, torture (poet. and in post-class. prose): strangulat inclusus dolor atque exaestuat intus,Ov. Tr. 5, 1, 63: voluptates in hoc nos amplectuntur, ut strangulent,Sen. Ep. 51, 13: plures nimiā congesta pecunia curā Strangulat,Juv. 10, 12: venditor omnes causas, quibus strangulatur, exponat, i. e. is forced to the sale, Cod. Th. 12, 3, 1."
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