(v. a.P. a.P. a.) : castīgo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.castum-ago, as purgo = purum-ago
* To set right by word or deed, to correct, chastise, punish; to blame, reprove, chide, censure, find fault with (syn.: animadvertere, punire; more forcible than reprehendere and vituperare; weaker than culpare; class. in prose and poetry): pueros non verbis solum, sed etiam verberibus,Cic. Tusc. 3, 27, 64; so, verberibus,Plin. 8, 3, 3, § 6; cf. Liv. 26, 27, 8; Curt. 8, 6, 5: magnā clade,Liv. 39, 1, 4: baculo,Front. Strat. 1, 1, 3: quo saepius (magister) monuerit, hoc rarius castigabit,Quint. 2, 2, 5: laudat Pompeius... segniores castigat atque incitat,Caes. B. C. 1, 3; so opp. laudare,Liv. 27, 8, 18; Tac. Agr. 21: castigando increpandoque plus quam leniter agendo, proficere,Liv. 27, 9, 8: servos exuviis bubulis,Plaut. Most. 4, 1, 26: aliquem dictis plurumis,id. Bacch. 4, 8, 67; Verg. A. 5, 387: verbis,Cic. Off. 1, 25, 88; Liv. 36, 20, 4: litteris,Caes. B. C. 3, 25: per litteras,Tac. A. 3, 35: leniter,Liv. 30, 15, 10; 36, 31, 8: vehementissime,Petr. 109, 1: in hoc me ipse castigo quod, etc.,Cic. Tusc. 5, 1, 4: segnitiem hominum atque inertiam,id. de Or. 1, 41, 184; Liv. 31, 6, 5: nimiam lenitatem,id. 39, 55, 1: moras,Verg. A. 4, 407: dolos,id. ib. 6, 567: vitia,Juv. 2, 35; Vulg. Psa. 117, 18; id. Heb. 12, 6 al.
* Esp.
* To correct some error, to set right, mend (poet. or in post-Aug. prose) ( = corrigere, emendare): carmen, *Hor. A. P. 294: amicae verba,Juv. 6, 455: examen improbum in trutină,Pers. 1, 6: vitia sua,Plin. Pan. 46, 6.
* To hold in check, to restrain; lit. and trop. (rare for the more usu. coërcere, cohibere, etc.): quid illum credis facturum, nisi eum ... servas, castigas, mones?Ter. Heaut. 3, 3, 31: equum tenacem, non parentem frenis asperioribus castigare,Liv. 39, 25, 13; Tac. A. 6, 13: castigatus animi dolor,Cic. Tusc. 2, 21, 50: risum crebris potiunculis,Petr. 47, 7: lapsus,Stat. Th. 6, 700; cf. under P. a.—Hence
* Of relations of space, to enclose, surround, encompass, confine, shut in: insula castigatur aquis,Sil. 12, 355.— Hence, castīgātus, a, um, P. a. (poet. or in post-Aug. prose), confined, compressed; hence
* As a designation of physical beauty, small, slender, close: pectus,Ov. Am. 1, 5, 21: frons,Stat. S. 2, 1, 43.
* Trop., restrained, checked: luxuria tanto castigatior, quanto posset esse liberior, Aug. Civ. Dei, 5, 24: castigatissima disciplina,the strictest,Gell. 4, 20, 1 Hertz (Cod. Reg. castissima).—Adv.: castīgātē.
* (Acc. to castigatus, 1.) Compressedly, briefly: castigatius,Macr. Somn. Scip. 1, 6: castigatius eloqui,Aug. Doctr. Christ. 4, 14.
* (Acc. to 2.) Restrainedly, within bounds: vixit modeste, castigate, etc.,Sen. Contr. 6, 8: vivere,Amm. 22, 3, 12.

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