I.to begin to cut or to cut into [cf.: adamo, addubito, etc.); hence, so to cut a thing that it falls, to fell, to cut (as verb. finit. very rare).
I. Lit.: “accidunt arbores, tantum ut summa species earum stantium relinquatur,” Caes. B. G. 6, 27, 4: “accisa ornus ferro,” Verg. A. 2, 626; cf.: “velut accisis recrescenti stirpibus,” Liv. 26, 41, 22: “accisis crinibus,” cut close, Tac. G. 19: ab locustis genus omne acciditur frugum, eaten up, Arnob. 1, 3.—Poet., to use up: “fames accisis coget dapibus consumere mensas,” Verg. A. 7, 125.—
II. Fig., to impair, weaken: “ita proelio uno accidit Vestinorum res, ut, etc.,” Liv. 8, 29, 12; so, “post accisas a Camillo Volscorum res,” id. 6, 5, 2; cf. 6, 12, 6.—Hence, accīsus , a, um, P. a., cut off or down; impaired, ruined: accisae res (opp. integrae), troubled, disordered, or unfortunate state of things: “res,” Cic. Prov. Cons. 14, 34; Liv. 3, 10, 8; 8, 11, 12 al.: “copiae,” Hirt. B. G. 8, 31; Liv. 8, 11, 8: “robur juventutis,” id. 7, 29 fin.: “opes,” Hor. S. 2, 2, 114: “accisae desolataeque gentes,” Sil. 8, 590: “reliquiae (hostium),” Tac. A. 1, 61.
