I.to wound, hurt.
I. Lit. (class. but rare; not in Cæs.; “syn.: vulnero, laedo): Rubrius in turbā sauciatur,” Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 67; id. Vatin. 5, 13: ut ictu tragulae sauciaretur, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 398, 8 (Hist. 2, 19 Dietsch): “aliquem virgis,” Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 53: “ungue genas,” Ov. A. A. 3, 708: radices, Cato ap. Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 198: “sive quis sauciatus in opere noxam ceperit,” Col. 11, 1, 18.—*
2. In partic., pregn., to kill: “meus discipulus valde amat illum, quem Brutus noster sauciavit,” has stabbed, mortally wounded, Cic. Att. 14, 22, 1.—
B. Transf. (acc. to saucius, II. B. 2.), of the cultivation of the soil, to dig into, tear up the ground: “sauciet ut duram vomer aduncus humum,” Ov. R. Am. 172: “terrae summam partem levi vomere,” Col. 2, 2, 23; cf. the words vulnero, vulnus, cicatrix, etc.—
2. To prune, trim: “saucianda ferro est atque exulceranda vitis in eā parte,” Col. 4, 24, 17: “obliquam vitem plerumque sauciat et interdum praecidit,” id. 4, 4, 2.—