caedes (noun F) : (
* Gen. plur. regularly caedium, Liv. 1, 13, 3; Just. 11, 13, 9; Flor. 3, 18, 14 al.; but caedum,Sil. 2, 665; 4, 353; 4, 423; 4, 796; 5, 220; 10, 233; Amm. 22, 12, 1; 29, 5, 27; cf. Prisc. p. 771 P), f. caedo.
* Lit.
* In gen., a cutting or lopping off (post-class. and rare): ligni atque frondium caedes,Gell. 19, 12, 7: capilli, qui caede cultrorum desecti,App. M. 3.
* Meton.
* The slaughter of animals, esp. of victims: studiosus caedis ferinae, i. e. ferarum,Ov. M. 7, 675; so id. ib. 7, 809; cf. ferarum,id. ib. 2, 442; 15, 106: armenti,id. ib. 10, 541: boum,id. ib. 11, 371: juvenci,id. ib. 15, 129: bidentium,Hor. C. 3, 23, 14: juvencorum,Mart. 14, 4, 1.
* (Abstr. pro concreto.) The persons slain or murdered, the slain: caedis acervi,Verg. A. 10, 245: plenae caedibus viae,Tac. H. 4, 1.
* Also meton. as in Gr. φόνος, the blood shed by murder, gore, Lucr. 3, 643; 5, 1312: permixta flumina caede,Cat. 64, 360: respersus fraternā caede,id. 64, 181: madefient caede sepulcra,id. 64, 368: tepidā recens Caede locus,Verg. A. 9, 456: sparsae caede comae,Prop. 2, 8, 34: caede madentes,Ov. M. 1, 149; 14, 199; 3, 143; 4, 97; 4, 125; 4, 163; 6, 657; 8, 444; 9, 73; 13, 389; 15, 174.
* An attempt to murder: nostrae injuria caedis,Verg. A. 3, 256.
* A striking with the fist, a beating (post-class.): contumeliosa, Don. Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 46: nimia,id. ib. 4, 2, 19; 2, 1, 18.

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