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illīdo (inl- ), si, sum, 3, v. a. in-laedo,
I.to strike or dash against or upon, to beat against, to strike, dash or beat in any direction.
I. Lit. (mostly poet., not in Cic. prose; cf.: “incutio, impingo, infligo): libravit caestus effractoque illisit in ossa cerebro,” Verg. A. 5, 480: ad vulnus manus, Cic. poët. Tusc. 3, 31, 76 fin.: “(naves) vadis,” Verg. A. 1, 112: “repagula ossibus,” Ov. M. 5, 121: “funale fronti,” id. ib. 12, 250: “dentem fragili (corpori),” Hor. S. 2, 1, 77: “caput foribus,” Suet. Aug. 23: “superbissimos vultus solo,” Plin. Pan. 52, 4: “linum illisum crebro silici,” Plin. 19, 1, 3, § 18: “fluctus se illidit in litore,” Quint. 10, 3, 30 Zumpt N. cr.: quos Rex suus illisit pelago, drove to the sea, i. e. forced to navigate the sea, Val. Fl. 7, 52: “avidos illidit in aegrum Cornipedem cursus,” i. e. guides, Stat. Th. 11, 517.—
II. Transf., to strike or dash to pieces (very rare): “illisis cruribus,” Varr. R. R. 3, 7, 10: “serpens compressa atque illisa morietur,” Cic. Har. Resp. 25 fin.
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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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (11):
    • Cicero, On the Responses of the Haruspices, 25
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 5.121
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 12.250
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 1.112
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 5.480
    • Suetonius, Divus Augustus, 23
    • Horace, Satires, 2.1.77
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 19.18
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 7.52
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 10, 3.30
    • Statius, Thebias, 11
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