I.to cut or lop off, to cut short, clip, crop; to maim, mutilate (syn.: trunco, tondeo, amputo).
I. Lit.: “naso auribusque mutilatis,” Liv. 29, 9: “corpora securibus,” Curt. 9, 2, 10: “aures naresque,” id. 7, 5, 21: “mutilatae cauda colubrae,” Ov. M. 6, 559: “ramos, id. de Nuce, 37: dentem,” Plin. 8, 5, 5, § 11.—
II. Transf.
A. To mutilate, in pronunciation: “verba,” Plin. 7, 16, 15, § 70.—
B. To shorten, to diminish, lessen: “aliquem,” i. e. to curtail his fortune, rob him, Ter. Hec. 1, 1, 7; exercitum, * Cic. Phil. 3 12, 31: patrimonium, Cod. Just. 11, 33, 1: “commoda urbis,” id. 11, 42, 2: “jura libertatis,” id. 7, 22, 2.
