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caedes , is (
I.gen. plur. regularly caedium, Liv. 1, 13, 3; Just. 11, 13, 9; Flor. 3, 18, 14 al.; “but caedum,” Sil. 2, 665; 4, 353; 4, 423; 4, 796; 5, 220; 10, 233; Amm. 22, 12, 1; 29, 5, 27; cf. Prisc. p. 771 P), f. caedo.
I. Lit.
A. In gen., a cutting or lopping off (post-class. and rare): “ligni atque frondium caedes,” Gell. 19, 12, 7: “capilli, qui caede cultrorum desecti,” App. M. 3.—
B. Esp. (acc. to caedo, I. B. 1.; cf. cado, I. B. 2.), a cutting down, slaughter, massacre, carnage; esp. in battle or by an assassin; murder (usu. class. signif. of the word in prose and poetry; “esp. freq. in the histt. in Suet. alone more than twenty times): pugnam caedesque petessit,” Lucr. 3, 648: “caedem caede accumulantes,” id. 3, 71: caedem (the deadly slaughter, conflict) in quā P. Clodius occisus est, Cic. Mil. 5, 12: “caedes et occisio,” id. Caecil. 14, 41: “magistratuum privatorumque caedes,” id. Mil. 32, 87: “cum in silvā Silā facta caedes esset,” id. Brut. 22, 85: “notat (Catilina) et designat oculis ad caedem unumquemque nostrum,” id. Cat. 1, 1, 2: “jam non pugna sed caedes erat,” Curt. 4, 15, 32: “caedes inde, non jam pugna fuit,” Liv. 23, 40, 11: “ex mediā caede effugere,” id. 23, 29, 15: “cum caedibus et incendiis agrum perpopulari,” id. 34, 56, 10: “silvestres homines... Caedibus et victu foedo deterruit Orpheus,” Hor. A. P. 392: “magnā caede factā multisque occisis,” Nep. Epam. 9, 1: “caedes civium,” id. ib. 10, 3: “caedem in aliquem facere,” Sall. J. 31, 13; Liv. 2, 64, 3: “edere,” id. 5, 45, 8; 40, 32, 6; Just. 2, 11: “perpetrare,” Liv. 45, 5, 5: “committere,” Ov. H. 14, 59; Quint. 5, 12, 3; 10, 1, 12; 7, 4, 43; Curt. 8, 2: “admittere,” Suet. Tib. 37: “peragere,” Luc. 3, 580: “abnuere,” Tac. A. 1, 23: “festinare,” id. ib. 1, 3: “ab omni caede abhorrere,” Suet. Dom. 9: portendere, Sall.J. 3, 2; Suet. Calig. 57 et saep.; cf. “in the poets,” Cat. 64, 77; Verg. A. 2, 500; 10, 119; Hor. C. 1, 8, 16; 2, 1, 35; 3, 2, 12; 3, 24, 26; 4, 4, 59; Ov. M. 1, 161; 4, 503; 3, 625; 4, 160; 5, 69; 6, 669.—
2. The slaughter of animals, esp. of victims: “studiosus caedis ferinae, i. e. ferarum,” Ov. M. 7, 675; so id. ib. 7, 809; cf. “ferarum,” id. ib. 2, 442; “15, 106: armenti,” id. ib. 10, 541: “boum,” id. ib. 11, 371: “juvenci,” id. ib. 15, 129: “bidentium,” Hor. C. 3, 23, 14: “juvencorum,” Mart. 14, 4, 1.—
II. Meton.
A. (Abstr. pro concreto.) The persons slain or murdered, the slain: “caedis acervi,” Verg. A. 10, 245: “plenae caedibus viae,” Tac. H. 4, 1.—
B. Also meton. as in Gr. φόνος, the blood shed by murder, gore, Lucr. 3, 643; 5, 1312: “permixta flumina caede,” Cat. 64, 360: “respersus fraternā caede,” id. 64, 181: “madefient caede sepulcra,” id. 64, 368: “tepidā recens Caede locus,” Verg. A. 9, 456: “sparsae caede comae,” Prop. 2, 8, 34: “caede madentes,” Ov. M. 1, 149; 14, 199; 3, 143; 4, 97; 4, 125; 4, 163; 6, 657; 8, 444; 9, 73; 13, 389; 15, 174.—
C. An attempt to murder: “nostrae injuria caedis,” Verg. A. 3, 256.—
D. A striking with the fist, a beating (post-class.): contumeliosa, Don. Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 46: “nimia,” id. ib. 4, 2, 19; 2, 1, 18.
A Latin Dictionary. Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary. revised, enlarged, and in great part rewritten by. Charlton T. Lewis, Ph.D. and. Charles Short, LL.D. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1879.

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