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con-tŭmēlĭa (post-class. access. form contŭmĭa , Mart. Cap. 4, § 424; cf.: contumia contumelia, Gloss. Isid.), ae, f. from a root tem, whence also temno, contemno, and contumax; cf. Dig. 47, 10, 1,
I.abuse, insult, affront, reproach, invective, contumely (cf.: injuria, ὕβρις; very freq. and class. in sing. and plur.): “contumelia a contemptu dicta est, quia nemo nisi quem contempsit, tali injuriā notat,” Sen. Const. 11, 2: patior facile injuriam, si est vacua a contumeliā, Pac. ap. Non. p. 430, 16; cf. “Caecil. ib.: contumeliam alteri facere,” Plaut. As. 2, 4, 82; Ter. Phorm. 5, 7 (8), 79; cf. id. Eun. 5, 2, 26: “contumeliam dicere alicui,” Plaut. Curc. 4, 1, 17; id. Bacch. 2, 3, 33; Ter. Phorm. 2, 3, 29; Liv. 25, 22, 13: “contumeliam si dicis, audies,” Plaut. Ps. 4, 7, 77: “jacere in aliquem,” Cic. Sull. 7, 23: “meretricum perpeti,” Ter. Eun. 1, 1, 3; cf. Cic. Verr. 2, 3, 41, § 96: “in se accipere,” Ter. Eun. 4, 7, 1; cf.: “tanta contumelia accepta,” Caes. B. G. 7, 10: “alicui imponere,” Sall. C. 48, 9: “quibus tu privatim injurias plurimas contumeliasque imposuisti,” Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 9, § 20: “indignitates contumeliasque perferre,” Caes. B. G. 2, 14: graves, severe reproaches (opp. libera consilia), Hor. Epod. 11, 26: “aliquid in suam contumeliam vertere,” Caes. B. C. 1, 8: “per contumeliam,” id. ib. 1, 9; Quint. 4, 1, 11: “contumeliā perfugae appellari ab aliquo,” Caes. B. C. 2, 28; cf. Liv. 3, 50, 6 et saep.: “in contumeliam ignominiamque nostram certare juvat,” id. 4, 4, 12: “contumeliae verborum,” Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 5.—In mal. part., violation, Liv. 8, 28, 2; Auct. Har. Resp. 20, 42.—The expression facere contumeliam is censured by Cic. (Phil. 3, 9, 22) in the words of Antonius: nulla contumelia est, quam facit dignus; but it is not clear on what grounds (whether as an archaism, or because it is used after the analogy of jacturam facere, in the sense of contumelia adfici); v. Quint. 9, 3, 13, and cf. esp. Gronov. Observv. 3, 8, pp. 488-502 (pp. 241-247 Frotsch.).—Personified: Contŭmē-lĭa , like Ὕβρις, Cic. Leg. 2, 11, 28.—*
II. Transf., injury, assault, annoyance, violence, blows, etc. ( = injuria): “naves totae factae ex robore ad quamvis vim et contumeliam perferendam,” injury, violence, Caes. B. G. 3, 13; so Phaedr. 1, 2, 21: “praeberi ora contumeliis,” to the blows, Tac. H. 3, 31; 3, 85: “debilitatis suae,” annoyance, hardship, Plin. Ep. 8, 18, 9; cf. injuria.
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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