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Lewis Short
(verb) : ad-mordĕo, rsum, 2, (
* Perf. admemordi, Plaut. Aul. Fragm. ap. Gell. 6, 9, 6), to bite at or gnaw, to bite into (cf. accīdo, to cut into).
* Lit.: admorso signata in stirpe cicatrix,Verg. G. 2, 379.—So of Cleopatra: bracchia admorsa colubris,Prop. 4, 10, 53.
* Fig., of a miser, to bite, i. e. get possession of some of one's property, to fleece him: lepidum est, triparcos, vetulos bene admordere,Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 14: jam admordere hunc mihi lubet, i. e. aggredi et ab eo aliquid corradere,id. Ps. 4, 7, 24.
* Perf. admemordi, Plaut. Aul. Fragm. ap. Gell. 6, 9, 6), to bite at or gnaw, to bite into (cf. accīdo, to cut into).
* Lit.: admorso signata in stirpe cicatrix,Verg. G. 2, 379.—So of Cleopatra: bracchia admorsa colubris,Prop. 4, 10, 53.
* Fig., of a miser, to bite, i. e. get possession of some of one's property, to fleece him: lepidum est, triparcos, vetulos bene admordere,Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 14: jam admordere hunc mihi lubet, i. e. aggredi et ab eo aliquid corradere,id. Ps. 4, 7, 24.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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