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Lewis Short
strāges (noun F) : sterno, II. B.
* A throwing down, throwing to the ground, overthrowing; an overthrow; confusion, confused heap or mass (cf.: acervus, strues; not freq. till after the Aug. per., esp. in Liv.; not in Caes.).
* Lit.
* In gen.
* Trop., overthrow, ruin, destruction: quas ego pugnas et quantas strages edidi!Cic. Att. 1, 16, 1.
* Pregn., a mortal overthrow; a defeat, slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage (syn.: caedes, clades): stragem horribilem caedemque vereri, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 20; so (with caedes) Tac. A. 14, 36; Just. 10, 3, 1; Val. Max. 5, 6, 5; cf.: quantas acies stragemque ciebunt!Verg. A. 6, 829: confusae stragis acervus,id. ib. 6, 504: complere strage campos,Liv. 7, 24.—In plur.: strages facere,Cic. Phil. 3, 12, 31: strages edere,id. Leg. 3, 9, 22; id. Att. 1, 16, 1; Verg. A. 9, 526; 9, 784; Just. 33, 2, 2; cf. also II.: cruentae,Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 132.—*
* A throwing down, throwing to the ground, overthrowing; an overthrow; confusion, confused heap or mass (cf.: acervus, strues; not freq. till after the Aug. per., esp. in Liv.; not in Caes.).
* Lit.
* In gen.
* Trop., overthrow, ruin, destruction: quas ego pugnas et quantas strages edidi!Cic. Att. 1, 16, 1.
* Pregn., a mortal overthrow; a defeat, slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage (syn.: caedes, clades): stragem horribilem caedemque vereri, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 20; so (with caedes) Tac. A. 14, 36; Just. 10, 3, 1; Val. Max. 5, 6, 5; cf.: quantas acies stragemque ciebunt!Verg. A. 6, 829: confusae stragis acervus,id. ib. 6, 504: complere strage campos,Liv. 7, 24.—In plur.: strages facere,Cic. Phil. 3, 12, 31: strages edere,id. Leg. 3, 9, 22; id. Att. 1, 16, 1; Verg. A. 9, 526; 9, 784; Just. 33, 2, 2; cf. also II.: cruentae,Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 132.—*
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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