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crūdus , a, um, adj. root kru-, of Gr. κρύος; cf. cruor, crudelis,
I.bloody, bleeding, trickling with blood, etc.
I. Prop. (so rare): “vulnus,Plin. Ep. 5, 16, 11: “vulnera,Ov. Tr. 3, 11, 19; id. P. 1, 3, 16.—
II. Transf.
A. Of food, raw, not cooked: quid tu curas, utrum crudum an coctum edim? Plaut. Aul. 3, 2, 15: “exta,Liv. 29, 27, 5: “carnem mandere,Suet. Ner. 37.—So also of undigested food: “pavo,Juv. 1, 143; cf. “trop.: lectio non cruda sed multā iteratione mollita et velut confecta,Quint. 10, 1, 19; “and, alvus,Cato, R. R. 125: “qui crudum ructat,” i. e. when undigested food rises in the stomach, Cels. 1, 2; v. ructo.— Transf., of persons suffering from indigestion, etc., Cic. Fin. 2, 8, 23; Quint. 11, 3, 27; Hor. S. 1, 5, 49; id. Ep. 1, 6, 61: “crudior,Cic. Clu. 60, 168; cf. cruditas; so, “bos,Hor. Epod. 8, 6 Orell. ad loc.—Hence, in a pun, Mart. 3, 13, 3 sq.
B. In gen., of all physical or moral crudeness, immaturity, roughness, etc.
1. Lit.
a. Unripe, immature, crude: “poma ex arboribus, cruda si sunt, vix evelluntur, si matura et cocta, decidunt,Cic. Sen. 19, 71: “pruna (opp. maturissima),Col. 12, 10, 3: “muria (opp. matura),id. 12, 6, 2 al.: “palmes,Luc. 4, 317 (viridis, Schol.); “of an abscess,not mature, Cels. 5, 28, 11: “puella,Mart. 8, 64, 11; cf. Hor. C. 3, 11, 12: “funera nepotis,premature, early, Stat. Th. 9, 391; cf. id. Achill. 1, 478: “amor,yet young, fresh, id. Th. 2, 341; cf.: “crudum adhuc servitium,Tac. A. 1, 8 fin.: “adhuc studia,Petr. 4: “crudi sine viribus anni,Sil. 12, 348: “juventus,not yet armed, id. 3, 302; Claud. Cons. Hon. 3, 42.—
(β). Opp. to age, and the weakness arising from age, fresh, vigorous: “jam senior, sed cruda deo viridisque senectus,Verg. A. 6, 304; “imitated by Tac.: quibus cruda ac viridis senectus,Tac. Agr. 29: cf. “meus,Sil. 5, 569.—
b. Unprepared, immature, raw, crude: “crudum et immotum solum,Col. 2, 2, 25; cf. Plin. 18, 19, 49, § 179: “pix,Col. 12, 20, 6: “corium,Varr. L. L. 5, § 116 Müll.; for which, poet., taurus, Val. Fl. 4, 250; “and, caestus,made of raw hide, undressed leather, Verg. A. 5, 69: “rudis cortice crudo hasta,id. ib. 9, 743.—Of verses, unpolished, rude: “junctura addita crudis (numeris),Pers. 1, 92 (cf.: “si forte aliquid decoctius audis,id. 1, 125).—Of the voice, rough, hoarse: “quia crudus fuerit,Cic. de Or. 1, 27, 125.—
2. Trop.
b. Rough, unfeeling, cruel, merciless (poet.).
(β). Of things as subjects: “bella,Ov. Am. 3, 8, 58: “ensis,Verg. A. 10, 682; cf. Sil. 7, 113; Stat. Th. 10, 342: “tyrannis,Juv. 8, 223: crudissimum pistrinum, most rude, uncultivated, Cassius ap. Suet. Aug. 4.—Adv. not in use.
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