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ē-nervo , āvi, ātum, 1 (scanned ĕnervans and ĕnervātum in Prud. Cath. 8, 64; contra Symm. 2, 143), v. a. enervis,
I.to take out the nerves or sinews.
I. Prop. (rare and post-class.): “poplites securi,App. M. 8, p. 215: “cerebella,Apic. 4, 2; 7, 7: “enervatus Melampus,” i. e. unmanned, Claud. in Eutr. 1, 315.—
II. Transf., in gen., to enervate, weaken, render effeminate (class.; esp. freq. in the part. perf.): “non plane me enervavit senectus,Cic. de Sen. 10, 32: “corpora animosque,Liv. 23, 18: “artus undis,Ov. M. 4, 286: “vires,Hor. Epod. 8, 2: “animos (citharae),Ov. R. Am. 753: “orationem compositione verborum,Cic. Or. 68 fin.; cf.: “corpus orationis,Petr. S. 2, 2: “incendium belli (with contundere),Cic. Rep. 1, 1.—Hence, ēnervātus , a, um, P. a., unnerved, weakened, effeminate, weakly, unmanly: “enervati atque exsangues,Cic. Sest. 10, 24; cf. id. Att. 2, 14; id. Pis. 33 fin.; 35, 12: “philosophus (with mollis and languidus),id. de Or. 1, 52 fin.Transf. of inanimate subjects: “ratio et oratio (with mollis),id. Tusc. 4, 17, 38; cf.: “muliebrisque sententia,id. ib. 2, 6: “vita (with ignava),Gell. 19, 12 fin.: “felicitas,Sen. Prov. 4 med.
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    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 2.14
    • Cicero, Against Piso, 33
    • Cicero, For Sestius, 10.24
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 4.286
    • Cicero, On Oratory, 1.52
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 23, 18
    • Petronius, Satyricon, 2
    • Cicero, De Republica, 1.1
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 4.17
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 19.12
    • Cicero, Orator, 68
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