I. To cut up, cut to pieces: “brassicam,” Cato, R. R. 157: “nasturtium minutatim,” Varr. R. R. 3, 10, 6: “rapa,” id. ib. 1, 59, 4: “membra fratris (Medea),” Ov. Tr. 3, 9, 34: “genas,” to lacerate, Petr. 137, 4.—
II. In Pliny, to cut off, lop, prune: “surculos,” Plin. 12, 19, 43, § 96: “truncum arboris,” id. 17, 10, 9, § 58; 36, 26, 66, § 193.