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proscindo
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Lewis Short
(verb) : prō-scindo, scĭdi, scissum, 3
* To tear open in front, to rend, split, cleave, cut up, cut in pieces (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
* Lit.
* In gen.: ferro proscindere quercum,Luc. 3, 434: piscem,App. Mag. p. 300, 18 and 20: spumanti Rhodanus proscindens gurgite campos,Sil. 3, 449: vulnere pectus,Stat. Th. 10, 439: fulgure terram,Just. 44, 3, 6.
* Trop., to cut up with words, to censure, satirize, revile, defame: aliquem,Ov. P. 4, 16, 47: equestrem ordinem,Suet. Calig. 30: aliquem foedissimo convicio,id. Aug. 13: carminibus proscissus,Plin. 36, 6, 7, § 48: aliquem famoso carmine, Suet. Vit. Luc.; Val. Max. 5, 3, 3; 8, 5, 2.
* Transf., to cut through, to cleave, furrow (poet.): rostro ventosum aequor. Cat. 64, 12: remo stagna,Sil. 8, 603.
* To tear open in front, to rend, split, cleave, cut up, cut in pieces (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
* Lit.
* In gen.: ferro proscindere quercum,Luc. 3, 434: piscem,App. Mag. p. 300, 18 and 20: spumanti Rhodanus proscindens gurgite campos,Sil. 3, 449: vulnere pectus,Stat. Th. 10, 439: fulgure terram,Just. 44, 3, 6.
* Trop., to cut up with words, to censure, satirize, revile, defame: aliquem,Ov. P. 4, 16, 47: equestrem ordinem,Suet. Calig. 30: aliquem foedissimo convicio,id. Aug. 13: carminibus proscissus,Plin. 36, 6, 7, § 48: aliquem famoso carmine, Suet. Vit. Luc.; Val. Max. 5, 3, 3; 8, 5, 2.
* Transf., to cut through, to cleave, furrow (poet.): rostro ventosum aequor. Cat. 64, 12: remo stagna,Sil. 8, 603.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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