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con-trŭcīdo , āvi, ātum, 1,
I.v. a., to hew or cut to pieces, to cut down, to put to the sword, slay (rare, but in good prose).
I. Prop.: “debilitato corpore et contrucidato se abjecit exanimatus (cf., shortly after, concisum vulneribus),” Cic. Sest. 37, 79; so, “plebem immisso milite,” Sen. Ira, 1, 2, 3: “universos,” Suet. Calig. 28; cf. id. ib. 48; id. Ner. 43 al.: “taurorum opima corpora,” Sen. Ep. 115, 5: “bestias ad munus populi comparatas,” Suet. Caes. 75.—*
II. Trop.: “hi summi imperii nomine armati rem publicam contrucidaverunt,” cut in pieces, Cic. Sest. 10, 24 (v. the figure in connection).
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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    • Cicero, For Sestius, 37.79
    • Cicero, For Sestius, 10.24
    • Suetonius, Caligula, 28
    • Suetonius, Divus Julius, 75
    • Suetonius, Nero, 43
    • Seneca, de Ira, 1.2.3
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