I.a throwing down, throwing to the ground, overthrowing; an overthrow; confusion, confused heap or mass (cf.: acervus, strues; not freq. till after the Aug. per., esp. in Liv.; not in Cæs.).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.
(α).
With gen.: “strage armorum saepta via est,” Liv. 35, 30: “nemorum,” Sil. 3, 205: “ruinae,” Liv. 42, 63: “minarum,” id. 37, 32: “aedificiorum et hominum,” Tac. A. 1, 76: “obstantis molis,” id. H. 1, 86: “rerum in trepidatione nocturna passim relictarum,” Liv. 10, 34: “boum hominumque,” id. 41, 21: “canum volucrumque aviumque boumque,” Ov. M. 7, 536: “exercituum,” Val. Max. 6, 6, ext. 1.—
(β).
Absol.: “dabit ille (nimbus) ruinas Arboribus stragemque satis,” Verg. A. 12, 454: “atrox tempestas multis locis stragem fecit,” Liv. 40, 2: “strage ac ruinā fudere Gallos,” id. 5, 43; cf. id. 4, 33.—
B. Pregn., a mortal overthrow; a defeat, slaughter, massacre, butchery, carnage (syn.: caedes, clades): stragem horribilem caedemque vereri, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 12, 20; so (with caedes) Tac. A. 14, 36; Just. 10, 3, 1; Val. Max. 5, 6, 5; cf.: “quantas acies stragemque ciebunt!” Verg. A. 6, 829: “confusae stragis acervus,” id. ib. 6, 504: “complere strage campos,” Liv. 7, 24.—In plur.: “strages facere,” Cic. Phil. 3, 12, 31: “strages edere,” id. Leg. 3, 9, 22; id. Att. 1, 16, 1; Verg. A. 9, 526; 9, 784; Just. 33, 2, 2; cf. “also II.: cruentae,” Claud. Laud. Stil. 1, 132.—*
