(v. a.P. a.) : caedo, cĕcīdi (in MSS. freq. caecīdi, v. Neue, Formenl. 2, 460), caesum, 3, v. a. root cīd- for scid-; cf. scindo; Gr. σχίζω.
* Lit.
* In gen.
* Trop.: caedere sermones, a Grecism, acc. to Prisc. 18, p. 1118 P., = κόπτειν τὰ ῥήματα, to chop words, chat, talk, converse, Ter. Heaut. 2, 3, 1; cf. Non. p. 272, 13, and Prisc. p. 1188 P.: oratio caesa,i. e. asyndeton,Auct. Her. 4, 19, 26; Aquil. Rom. §§ 18 and 19; Mart. Cap. 5; § 528.—Hence, caesum, i, n.; subst. in gram. synon. with comma, a stop, pause, comma, Mart. Cap. 5, § 527; Aquil. Rom. § 19; Fortun. Art. Rhet. 3, 10.
* Pregn.
* In gen., to strike upon something, to knock at, to beat, strike, cudgel, etc.: ut lapidem ferro quom caedimus evolat ignis,strike upon with iron,Lucr. 6, 314: caedere januam saxis,Cic. Verr 2, 1, 27, § 69: silicem rostro,Liv. 41, 13, 1: vasa dolabris,Curt. 5, 6, 5: femur, pectus, frontem,Quint. 2, 12, 10; cf. id. 11, 3, 123 al.: verberibus,Plaut. Most. 5, 2, 45; so Ter. And. 1, 2, 28: pugnis,Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 43: aliquem ex occulto,Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 17: at validis socios caedebant dentibus apri,they fell with their strong tusks upon their own party,Lucr. 5, 1325; cf. Plaut. Poen. 3, 3, 71: virgis ad necem caedi,Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 28, § 69; Hor. S. 1, 2, 42: populum saxis,id. ib. 2, 3, 128: ferulā aliquem,id. ib. 1, 3, 120: flagris,Quint. 6, 3, 25: aliquem loris,Cic. Phil. 8, 8, 24; Suet. Ner. 26; 49; id. Dom. 8: caeduntur (agrestes) inter potentium inimicitias,Sall. H. Fragm. 3, 61, 27 Dietsch: nudatos virgis,Liv. 2, 5, 8: hastilibus caedentes terga trepidantium,id. 35, 5, 10: servum sub furcā caesum medio egerat circo, i.e. ita ut simul caederet,id. 2, 36, 1.
* Prov.: stimulos pugnis caedere,to kick against the pricks, to aggravate a danger by foolish resistance,Plaut. Truc. 4, 2, 55.
* Trop.: in judicio testibus caeditur,is pressed, hard pushed,Cic. Q. Fr. 3, 3, 3.
* (Cf. cado, I. B. 2.) To strike mortally, to kill, murder: ille dies, quo Ti. Gracchus est caesus,Cic. Mil. 5, 14: P. Africanus de Tiberio Graccho responderat jure caesum videri,id. de Or. 2, 25, 106; id. Off. 2, 12, 43: caeso Argo,Ov. M. 2, 533; 5, 148; 12, 113; 12, 590; 12, 603; Suet. Caes. 76 al. —Poet., transf. to the blood shed in slaying: caeso sparsuros sanguine flammam,Verg. A. 11, 82.—Esp. freq.
* In milit. lang., to slay a single enemy; or, when a hostile army as a whole is spoken of, to conquer with great slaughter, to cut to pieces, vanquish, destroy (cf. Oud., Wolf, and Baumg.Crus. upon Suet. Vesp. 4): exercitus caesus fususque,Cic. Phil. 14, 1, 1: Romani insecuti (hostem), caedentes spoliantesque caesos, castra regia diripiunt,Liv. 32, 12, 10; 2, 47, 9: infra arcem caesi captique multi mortales,id. 4, 61, 6; 22, 7, 2 and 9; Quint. 12, 10, 24; Suet. Aug. 21; 23; id. Vesp. 4: Indos,Curt. 9, 5, 19: passim obvios,id. 5, 6, 6: praesidium,id. 4, 5, 17: propugnatores reipublicae,Quint. 12, 10, 24: caesus (hostis) per calles saltusque vagando circumagatur,Liv. 44, 36, 10 Kreyss.: consulem exercitumque caesum,id. 22, 56, 2: legio-nes nostras cecidere,id. 7, 30, 14; so Nep. Dat. 6, 4; Tac. Agr. 18; Suet. Claud. 1.— And poet., the leader is put for the army: Pyrrhum et ingentem cecidit Antiochum Hannibalemque dirum,Hor. C. 3, 6, 36.—In poet. hypallage: caesi corporum acervi (for caesorum),Cat. 64, 359.
* In mal. part. ( = concido; cf.: jam hoc, caede, concide: nonne vobis verba depromere videtur ad omne genus nequitiae accommodata?Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 66, § 155); Cat. 56, 7; Auct. Priap. 25, 10; Tert. Pall. 4.
* Hence, since security for a person was anciently given by the deposit of sheep belonging to him, which were slaughtered in case of forfeiture, leg. t. t.: pignus caedere (or concidere), to declare the for feiture of a security, to confiscate a pledge: non tibi illa sunt caedenda, si L. Crassum vis coërcere, Crass. ap. Cic. de Or. 3, 1, 4.

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