(verb) : saucĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, id.
* To wound, hurt.
* Lit. (class. but rare; not in Caes.; syn.: vulnero, laedo): Rubrius in turbā sauciatur,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 67; id. Vatin. 5, 13: ut ictu tragulae sauciaretur, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 398, 8 (Hist. 2, 19 Dietsch): aliquem virgis,Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 53: ungue genas,Ov. A. A. 3, 708: radices, Cato ap. Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 198: sive quis sauciatus in opere noxam ceperit,Col. 11, 1, 18.—*
* In partic., pregn., to kill: meus discipulus valde amat illum, quem Brutus noster sauciavit,has stabbed, mortally wounded,Cic. Att. 14, 22, 1.
* Trop. (anteand post-class.; rare), to wound, hurt, injure, impair: aculeata sunt, facta et famam sauciant,Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 30; cf.: cor odio,id. ib. 2, 2, 35: hoc modo sauciabatur salus hostium nesciorum,Amm. 24, 1, 14; App. M. 8, p. 205, 35.
* To prune, trim: saucianda ferro est atque exulceranda vitis in eā parte,Col. 4, 24, 17: obliquam vitem plerumque sauciat et interdum praecidit,id. 4, 4, 2.
* Poet., with se (cf. vulg. Engl., to get shot), to get drunk: haec anus admodum friguttit nimirum sauciavit se flore Liberi, Auct. ap. Fulg. 562, 25; cf. percutio, in the same sense,Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 20.