(verb) : vĭŏlo, āvi, ātum, 1, vis
* To treat with violence (corporeally, and, more freq., mentally), to injure, dishonor, outrage, violate (cf.: laedo, polluo, contamino).
* Lit. with persons as objects: hospites violare fas non putant,to injure, do violence to,Caes. B. G. 6, 23 fin.: aliquem,id. B. C. 3, 98: patriam prodere, parentes violare,Cic. Fin. 3, 9, 32.—Esp.: virginem, Auct. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, § 80 Müll.; Tib. 1, 6, 51; cf. Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 1 fin.: sacrum vulnere corpus,Verg. A. 11, 591; cf.: Getico peream violatus ab arcu,Ov. P. 3, 5, 45.
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* With places as objects, to invade, violate, profane: fines eorum se violaturum negavit,Caes. B. G. 6, 32: loca religiosa et lucos,Cic. Rab. Perd. 2, 7: Iliacos agros ferro,Verg. A. 11, 255: Cereale nemus securi,Ov. M. 8, 741: silva vetus nullāque diu violata securi,id. F. 4, 649.
* Trop. (rare and poet.): Indum sanguineo ostro ebur,i. e. to dye of a blood-red,Verg. A. 12, 67 (an imitation of the Homeric ἐλέφαντα φοίνικι μιήνη, Il. 4, 141).
* With abstract objects, to violate, outrage, break, injure, etc.: officium,Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 109: jus,id. Leg. 2, 9, 22: religionem,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 72, § 186: virginitatem alicujus,id. N. D. 3, 23, 59: vitam patris,id. Par. 3, 25: inducias per scelus,to break,Caes. B. C. 2, 15: foedera,Liv. 28, 44, 7; Tib. 1, 9, 2: amicitiam,Cic. Phil. 2, 1, 3: existimationem absentis,id. Quint. 23, 73; cf.: nominis nostri famam tuis probris,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 32, § 82: dignitatem alicujus in aliquā re,id. Fam. 1, 6, 2; cf.: injuriae sunt, quae aut pulsatione corpus aut convicio aures aut aliquā turpitudine vitam cujuspiam violant,Auct. Her. 4, 25, 35.