LAT
crucio
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(verb) : crŭcĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, crux.
* Orig., to put to death on the cross, to crucify (only in eccl. Lat.), Lact. Mort. Pers. 2, 1.
* In gen., to put to the rack, to torture, torment (freq. and class., esp. in the signif. B.).
* Physically: cum vigiliis et fame cruciaretur,Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 65: tribunos militum verberatos servilibusque omnibus suppliciis cruciatos trucidando occidit,Liv. 29, 18, 14 Drak. N. cr.: cum cruciabere dirae Sanguine serpentis,Ov. M. 2, 651: cruciataque diris Corpora tormentis,id. ib. 3, 694 al.: qui advehuntur quadrupedanti crucianti canterio,i. e. torturing the rider by its uneasy motion,Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 34.
* Transf. of inanimate things: terra ferro, ligno, igni, lapide, fruge omnibus cruciatur horis,Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 157; so, aes cruciatur in primis accensumque restinguitur sale,id. 33, 3, 20, § 65.
* Mentally.
* Act.: graviter adulescentulum,Ter. Heaut. 5, 5, 1; id. Eun. 2, 3, 93; Hor. S. 1, 10, 78 al.: officii me deliberatio cruciat cruciavitque adhuc,Cic. Att. 8, 15, 2: ut ipsus sese cruciat aegritudine!Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 89: ne crucia te, obsecro, anime mi,Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 15; cf. Hor. S. 1, 2, 22: quos major sollicitudo cruciat,Just. 6, 3, 9: illud me cruciat, quod, etc.,Mart. 11, 94, 5. —So pass.: tanto dolore cruciatus est,Just. 12, 13, 9.
* Medial (only in Plaut. and Ter.), to afflict one's self, to grieve, be afflicted: ut miserae matres cruciantur!Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 2; cf.: crucior miser,Ter. And. 5, 2, 10; with acc. and inf.: crucior me lapidem non habere, ut, etc.,Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 68; Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 6; and with acc. of neutr. pron.: istuc crucior, a viro me tali abalienarier,Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 11; id. Trin. 5, 2, 46.
* Orig., to put to death on the cross, to crucify (only in eccl. Lat.), Lact. Mort. Pers. 2, 1.
* In gen., to put to the rack, to torture, torment (freq. and class., esp. in the signif. B.).
* Physically: cum vigiliis et fame cruciaretur,Cic. Fin. 2, 20, 65: tribunos militum verberatos servilibusque omnibus suppliciis cruciatos trucidando occidit,Liv. 29, 18, 14 Drak. N. cr.: cum cruciabere dirae Sanguine serpentis,Ov. M. 2, 651: cruciataque diris Corpora tormentis,id. ib. 3, 694 al.: qui advehuntur quadrupedanti crucianti canterio,i. e. torturing the rider by its uneasy motion,Plaut. Capt. 4, 2, 34.
* Transf. of inanimate things: terra ferro, ligno, igni, lapide, fruge omnibus cruciatur horis,Plin. 2, 63, 63, § 157; so, aes cruciatur in primis accensumque restinguitur sale,id. 33, 3, 20, § 65.
* Mentally.
* Act.: graviter adulescentulum,Ter. Heaut. 5, 5, 1; id. Eun. 2, 3, 93; Hor. S. 1, 10, 78 al.: officii me deliberatio cruciat cruciavitque adhuc,Cic. Att. 8, 15, 2: ut ipsus sese cruciat aegritudine!Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 89: ne crucia te, obsecro, anime mi,Ter. Eun. 1, 2, 15; cf. Hor. S. 1, 2, 22: quos major sollicitudo cruciat,Just. 6, 3, 9: illud me cruciat, quod, etc.,Mart. 11, 94, 5. —So pass.: tanto dolore cruciatus est,Just. 12, 13, 9.
* Medial (only in Plaut. and Ter.), to afflict one's self, to grieve, be afflicted: ut miserae matres cruciantur!Plaut. Truc. 2, 5, 2; cf.: crucior miser,Ter. And. 5, 2, 10; with acc. and inf.: crucior me lapidem non habere, ut, etc.,Plaut. Capt. 3, 4, 68; Ter. Heaut. 4, 2, 6; and with acc. of neutr. pron.: istuc crucior, a viro me tali abalienarier,Plaut. Mil. 4, 8, 11; id. Trin. 5, 2, 46.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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