(verb) : suc-cīdo, cīdi, cīsum, 3, sub-caedo
* To cut off or away below, cut from below, to cut through, cut off, cut down, fell (rare but class.; not in Cic.): is pernas succidit iniquā superbiā Poeni, Enn. ap. Fest. pp. 304 and 305 Müll. (Ann. v. 279 Vahl.); cf.: vivos Succisis feminibus poplitibusque invenerunt,Liv. 22, 51, 7: poplitem,Verg. A. 10, 700: crura equis (with suffodere ilia),Liv. 42, 59, 3: nervos equorum,id. 44, 28, 14: arbores,Caes. B. G. 5, 9; Liv. 23, 24; Col. 2, 2, 11; 11, 2, 11; Plin. 16, 12, 23, § 58 al.: asseres,Liv. 44, 5, 6: florem aratro, Verg.A.9,435: frumentis succisis,cut down, mown down,Caes. B. G. 4, 38; 4, 19: Cererem,Verg. G. 1, 297: (herbas) curvamine falcis aënae,Ov. M. 7, 227: segetem,Sil. 15, 536 al.: cf.: ita gregem metite imbellem ac succidite ferro,mow down,Sil. 14, 134: serpens succisa manu Herculeā,Sen. Med. 702.—Poet.: succisa libido,emasculated, made powerless,Claud. in Eutr. 1, 190.

(verb) : suc-cĭdo, ĭdi, 3, sub-cado
* To fall under any thing. *
* In gen.: lorica quod e loris de corio crudo pectoralia faciebant: postea succidit Gallica e ferro sub id vocabulum,i. e. were comprehended under the word,Varr. L. L. 5, § 116 Müll.
* Pregn., to sink under one's self, sink down, sink (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
* Lit.: genua inedia succidunt,Plaut. Curc. 2, 3, 30; so, artus,Lucr. 3, 156: omnia fragore,id. 5, 109: terra repente,id. 5, 482: in mediis conatibus aegri Succidimus,Verg. A. 12, 911: imperfecta sublabantur aut succidant,Sen. Ep. 71, 35: continuo labore gravia genua succiderant,Curt. 9, 5, 7.
* Trop.: mens succidit,Sen. Ep. 71, 24: mendax Dardania domus,id. Agam. 863.