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* V. a., to hew or cut to pieces, to cut down, to put to the sword, slay (rare, but in good prose).
* Prop.: debilitato corpore et contrucidato se abjecit exanimatus (cf., shortly after, concisum vulneribus),Cic. Sest. 37, 79; so, plebem immisso milite,Sen. Ira, 1, 2, 3: universos,Suet. Calig. 28; cf. id. ib. 48; id. Ner. 43 al.: taurorum opima corpora,Sen. Ep. 115, 5: bestias ad munus populi comparatas,Suet. Caes. 75.—*
* Trop.: hi summi imperii nomine armati rem publicam contrucidaverunt,cut in pieces,Cic. Sest. 10, 24 (v. the figure in connection).

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