(verb) : laedo, si, sum, 3, perh. for lavido, root lu-; cf.: luo, solvo, and Germ. los-
* To hurt by striking, wound, injure, damage (syn.: saucio, vulnero).
* Lit.: lora laedunt bracchia,Plaut. Truc. 4, 3, 9: lembus ille mihi laedit latus,id. Bacch. 2, 3, 47: tua laesuro subtrahe colla,Ov. R. Am. 90: frondes laedit hiems,id. F. 6, 150: teneros laedunt prima juga juvencos,id. H. 4, 21; cf.: thymum laeditur imbribus,Plin. 21, 10, 31, § 56: aliquem vulnere,Ov. M. 4, 601: quid me dente captas laedere?Phaedr. 4, 8, 6: ferro retunso Semina,Verg. G. 2, 301: salsā laedit rubigine ferrum,id. ib. 2, 220: servum aliqua parte corporis, Gai Inst. 3, 219.—Poet.: collum,i. e. to hang one's self,Hor. C. 3, 27, 60: laesus nube dies,i. e. darkened,Luc. 5, 456.
* Trop., to trouble, annoy, vex, injure, offend, afflict, grieve, hurt: dicto, facto,Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 53: injuste neminem laesit,Cic. Mur. 40, 87: non minus nos stultitia illius sublevat, quam laedit improbitas,id. Caecin. 9, 23: aliquem perjurio suo,to attack,id. ib. 10, 28: Pisonem,to rail at,id. de Or. 2, 70, 285: nulli os,to offend no one to his face,Ter. Ad. 5, 4, 10: tua me infortunia laedunt,Hor. A. P. 103: tristi laedere versu scurram,id. S. 2, 1, 21: te a me ludibrio laesum iri, Cic. Fil. ap. Cic. Fam. 5, 1, 1: quae laedunt oculum, demere,Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 38; 1, 17, 8.—Absol.: quia laesit prior,Ter. Eun. prol. 6: nec laedere nec violari,Lucr. 5, 1020.
* Esp.
* Of pledged faith, one's word, agreement, etc., to break, violate, betray: fidem,Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 111; Caes. B. C. 2, 44: cur tibi junior laesa praeniteat fide,Hor. C. 1, 33, 4: laesi testatur foederis aras,Verg. A. 12, 496: laesae vulnera pacis,Petr. 119.
* Of reputation, to harm, injure: famam alicujus gravi opprobrio,Suet. Caes. 49.
* Freq. of an offended divinity: quo numine laeso,Verg. A. 1, 8; 2, 183: tu magnorum numen laesura deorum,Hor. Epod. 15, 3: ego laedor,Ov. M. 1, 608: Veneris numina,Tib. 1, 3, 79; 3, 6, 26: superos,Luc. 7, 848.
* Of circumstances: res laesae,disaster, misfortune,Sil. 11, 6, 5.—Esp., in the phrase laedere majestatem, to commit treason (late Lat., v. also majestas): laesae majestatis arcessere maritum,Amm. 16, 8, 4: laesae crimina majestatis,id. 19, 12, 1; 21, 12, 19; so, laedere majestatem populi Romani,Sen. Contr. 4, 25, 13.

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