(verb) : jŭgŭlo, āvi, ātum, 1, jugulum
* To cut the throat, to kill, slay, murder (class.).
* Lit.: cum jugulatur sus,Cic. Tusc. 5, 40, 116: cives optimos jugulari jussit,id. Phil. 3, 2, 4: se alicui tradere jugulandum,id. Mil. 11, 31: hominem crudeliter,Cels. 1 praef. § 70: qui unum hominem jugulat,Lact. 1, 18, 10.—Com. of hunger: ita mi auctores fuere, ut egomet me hodie jugularem fame,Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 3.—Also of diseases: quartana neminem jugulat,Cels. 3, 15: id genus acutum est, et celeriter jugulat,id. 3, 20, 3.—In a pun: cur non Hunc Regem jugulas?Hor. S. 1, 7, 35.—Pregn.: tum rite sacratas in flammam jugulant pecudes,slaughter and throw,Verg. A. 12, 214.
* Trop., to confute, convict, silence: aliquem factis decretisque,Cic. Verr. 2, 2, 26, § 64: jugulari sua confessione,id. ib. 2, 5, 64, § 166: jugulari suo gladio, suoque telo,to be beaten with one's own weapons, foiled with one's own devices,Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 35: gladio plumbeo,i. e. to overcome without difficulty,Cic. Att. 1, 16, 2: Falernum,to adulterate, spoil,Mart. 1, 19, 5: curas,to drive away, banish,id. 8, 51, 26.