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turpo
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Lewis Short
(verb) : turpo, āvi, ātum, 1, id.
* To make ugly or unsightly, to soil, defile, pollute, disfigure, deform (mostly poet.; cf. deformo).
* Lit.: Jovis aram sanguine turpari, to be defiled or polluted, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 85; 3, 19, 45 (Trag. v. 125 Vahl.): sanguine capillos,Verg. A. 10, 832: canitiem pulvere,id. ib. 12, 611: frontem (cicatrix),Hor. S. 1, 5, 61; cf.: candidos umeros (rixae),id. C. 1, 13, 10: ora (pallor),Sil. 7, 631: te quia rugae Turpant et capitis nives,Hor. C. 4, 13, 12: ipsos (scabies),Tac. H. 5, 4: Herculea turpatus gymnade vultus,Stat. Th 4, 106.
* Trop., to dishonor, disgrace: ornamenta, Cic. Fragm. ap. Hier Ep. 66, 7: avos,Stat. Th. 8, 433: afflictos Argos,id. ib. 10, 437.
* To make ugly or unsightly, to soil, defile, pollute, disfigure, deform (mostly poet.; cf. deformo).
* Lit.: Jovis aram sanguine turpari, to be defiled or polluted, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 85; 3, 19, 45 (Trag. v. 125 Vahl.): sanguine capillos,Verg. A. 10, 832: canitiem pulvere,id. ib. 12, 611: frontem (cicatrix),Hor. S. 1, 5, 61; cf.: candidos umeros (rixae),id. C. 1, 13, 10: ora (pallor),Sil. 7, 631: te quia rugae Turpant et capitis nives,Hor. C. 4, 13, 12: ipsos (scabies),Tac. H. 5, 4: Herculea turpatus gymnade vultus,Stat. Th 4, 106.
* Trop., to dishonor, disgrace: ornamenta, Cic. Fragm. ap. Hier Ep. 66, 7: avos,Stat. Th. 8, 433: afflictos Argos,id. ib. 10, 437.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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