I.to make foul, filthy, hideous; to defile, pollute, disfigure, mar, deform (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose).
I. Physically: “Harpyiae contactu omnia foedant immundo,” Verg. A. 3, 227: “foedare in pulvere crines,” id. ib. 12, 99: “canitiem vultusque seniles pulvere,” Ov. M. 8, 530: “ignes sanguine per aras,” Verg. A. 2, 502; Ov. M. 3, 723: “tellurem calido sanguine,” id. ib. 6, 238: “brachia tabo,” id. ib. 14, 190: “pectora pugnis, unguibus ora,” Verg. A. 11, 86: “ora,” Tac. Agr. 36: “aliquem verberibus,” id. H. 3, 77: ferro foedati jacent, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 3, 241 (Trag. v. 442 ed. Vahl.); cf.: foedant et proterunt hostium copias, i. e. mar or mutilate with wounds, wound, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 91: “qui me (i. e. Prometheum) perenni vivum foedat miseria, Cic. Poët. Tusc. 2, 10, 24: obscenas pelagi ferro foedare volucres,” Verg. A. 3, 241: “foedati agri, terror injectus urbi est,” laid waste, Liv. 3, 26, 1.—Of inanim. subjects: “nulla tectoria eorum rimae foedavere,” Plin. 36, 23, 55, § 176: nubes foedavere lumen, Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv Verg. A. 2, 286; cf.: “aër assiduo noctem foedaverat imbre,” Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 538.—
II. Trop., to disgrace, dishonor, mar, sully: (Graeci) nos quoque dictitant barbaros et spurcius nos quam alios opicos appellatione foedant, Cato ap. Plin. 29, 1, 7, § 14: “foedati crimine turpi,” Lucr. 3, 49: “gloriam majorum,” Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 30; cf.: “Romam ipsam foedavit adventus tuus,” Cic. Pis. 22, 53: “ne vestis serica viros foedaret,” Tac. A. 2, 33: “procerum conubiis mixtis,” id. G. 46: “castra pollui foedarique a Classico ne sinatis,” id. H. 4, 58: “egregia erga populum Romanum merita mox rebelles foedarunt,” id. ib. 4, 37: “foedata per avaritiam victoria,” id. A. 4, 19; 11, 6; 15, 32: “multiplici clade foedatus annus,” Liv. 3, 32, 4.
