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(verb) : foedo, āvi, ātum, 1, id.
* To make foul, filthy, hideous; to defile, pollute, disfigure, mar, deform (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose).
* Physically: Harpyiae contactu omnia foedant immundo,Verg. A. 3, 227: foedare in pulvere crines,id. ib. 12, 99: canitiem vultusque seniles pulvere,Ov. M. 8, 530: ignes sanguine per aras,Verg. A. 2, 502; Ov. M. 3, 723: tellurem calido sanguine,id. ib. 6, 238: brachia tabo,id. ib. 14, 190: pectora pugnis, unguibus ora,Verg. A. 11, 86: ora,Tac. Agr. 36: aliquem verberibus,id. H. 3, 77: ferro foedati jacent, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 3, 241 (Trag. v. 442 ed. Vahl.); cf.: foedant et proterunt hostium copias, i. e. mar or mutilate with wounds, wound, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 91: qui me (i. e. Prometheum) perenni vivum foedat miseria, Cic. Poët. Tusc. 2, 10, 24: obscenas pelagi ferro foedare volucres,Verg. A. 3, 241: foedati agri, terror injectus urbi est,laid waste,Liv. 3, 26, 1.—Of inanim. subjects: nulla tectoria eorum rimae foedavere,Plin. 36, 23, 55, § 176: nubes foedavere lumen, Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv Verg. A. 2, 286; cf.: aër assiduo noctem foedaverat imbre,Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 538.
* Trop., to disgrace, dishonor, mar, sully: (Graeci) nos quoque dictitant barbaros et spurcius nos quam alios opicos appellatione foedant, Cato ap. Plin. 29, 1, 7, § 14: foedati crimine turpi,Lucr. 3, 49: gloriam majorum,Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 30; cf.: Romam ipsam foedavit adventus tuus,Cic. Pis. 22, 53: ne vestis serica viros foedaret,Tac. A. 2, 33: procerum conubiis mixtis,id. G. 46: castra pollui foedarique a Classico ne sinatis,id. H. 4, 58: egregia erga populum Romanum merita mox rebelles foedarunt,id. ib. 4, 37: foedata per avaritiam victoria,id. A. 4, 19; 11, 6; 15, 32: multiplici clade foedatus annus,Liv. 3, 32, 4.
* To make foul, filthy, hideous; to defile, pollute, disfigure, mar, deform (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose).
* Physically: Harpyiae contactu omnia foedant immundo,Verg. A. 3, 227: foedare in pulvere crines,id. ib. 12, 99: canitiem vultusque seniles pulvere,Ov. M. 8, 530: ignes sanguine per aras,Verg. A. 2, 502; Ov. M. 3, 723: tellurem calido sanguine,id. ib. 6, 238: brachia tabo,id. ib. 14, 190: pectora pugnis, unguibus ora,Verg. A. 11, 86: ora,Tac. Agr. 36: aliquem verberibus,id. H. 3, 77: ferro foedati jacent, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 3, 241 (Trag. v. 442 ed. Vahl.); cf.: foedant et proterunt hostium copias, i. e. mar or mutilate with wounds, wound, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 91: qui me (i. e. Prometheum) perenni vivum foedat miseria, Cic. Poët. Tusc. 2, 10, 24: obscenas pelagi ferro foedare volucres,Verg. A. 3, 241: foedati agri, terror injectus urbi est,laid waste,Liv. 3, 26, 1.—Of inanim. subjects: nulla tectoria eorum rimae foedavere,Plin. 36, 23, 55, § 176: nubes foedavere lumen, Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv Verg. A. 2, 286; cf.: aër assiduo noctem foedaverat imbre,Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 538.
* Trop., to disgrace, dishonor, mar, sully: (Graeci) nos quoque dictitant barbaros et spurcius nos quam alios opicos appellatione foedant, Cato ap. Plin. 29, 1, 7, § 14: foedati crimine turpi,Lucr. 3, 49: gloriam majorum,Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 30; cf.: Romam ipsam foedavit adventus tuus,Cic. Pis. 22, 53: ne vestis serica viros foedaret,Tac. A. 2, 33: procerum conubiis mixtis,id. G. 46: castra pollui foedarique a Classico ne sinatis,id. H. 4, 58: egregia erga populum Romanum merita mox rebelles foedarunt,id. ib. 4, 37: foedata per avaritiam victoria,id. A. 4, 19; 11, 6; 15, 32: multiplici clade foedatus annus,Liv. 3, 32, 4.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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