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tondĕo , tŏtondi, tonsum, 2 (collat. form acc. to the third conj.: OVES TONDVNTVR, Calend. ap. Grut. 138), v. a. for tomdeo; root in Gr. τέμνω, to cut,
I.to shear, clip, crop, to shave, etc.
I. Lit.: “barbam et capillum,Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58; so, “barbam,Mart. 11, 39, 3: “capillum,Ov. M. 8, 151: “cutem,Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 7: “os,Cat. 61, 139: “ovem,Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 28; Hor. Epod. 2, 16; Verg. G. 3, 443; Plin. 18, 27, 67, § 257; cf. “lanam,Hor. C. 3, 15, 14: “naevos in facie,Plin. 28, 4, 6, § 34: saltatrix tonsa, i. e. with hair clipped short (of the Consul Gabinius), Cic. Pis. 8, 18; cf.: tonsus puer or minister, cropped, i. e. common, mean, Mart. 10, 98, 9; 11, 11, 3: ad alta tonsum templa cum reum misit, i. e. acquitted (prop. without the untrimmed hair of accused persons), id. 2, 74, 3.—Mid.: “lavamur et tondemur et convivimus ex consuetudine,Quint. 1, 6, 44.— Absol.: “ne tonsori collum committeret, tondere filias suas docuit,Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58.—And in reflex. sense: “ut decrescente lunā tondens calvus fiam,shaving myself, Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 2: “candidior postquain tondenti barba cadebat,Verg. E. 1, 29.—
II. Transf.
B. To mow, reap: “tonsas cessare novales patiere,after harvest, Verg. G. 1, 71: “nocte arida prata Tondentur,id. ib. 1, 290: “tondeturque seges maturos annua partus,Tib. 4, 1, 172: “tonsam verrit humum,Ov. R. Am. 192; Sen. Phoen. 130.—
C. To crop, to graze, feed, or browse upon, to eat off; to pluck, gather, cull (poet.): “ex uno tondentes gramina campo Lanigerae pecudes,Lucr. 2, 660: “pabula (pecudes),id. 2, 317: “dumeta (juvenci),Verg. G. 1, 15: “campum late (equi),id. A. 3, 538: “viridantia gramina morsu,id. Cul. 49: “tondentes comam fluvii capellae,App. M. 5, p. 169, 37: “jecur rostro (vultur),Verg. A. 6, 598: “ales avida fecundum jecur,Sen. Agam. 18; cf. “in a Greek constr.: illa autem, quae tondetur praecordia rostro Alitis,Sil. 13, 839. —
D. As in Engl., to shave, fleece, for to deprive, plunder (very rare): “adibo hunc . . . itaque tondebo auro usque ad vivam cutem,Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 8: “tondens purpureā regna paterna comā,Prop. 3, 19 (4, 18), 22.
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (21):
    • Cicero, Against Piso, 8.18
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 8.151
    • Plautus, Bacchides, 2.3
    • Plautus, Mercator, 3.1
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.538
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.598
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.15
    • Vergil, Georgics, 1.71
    • Vergil, Georgics, 4.137
    • Vergil, Georgics, 3.443
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.317
    • Lucretius, De Rerum Natura, 2.660
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 15.4
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 28.34
    • Seneca, Agamemnon, 18
    • Seneca, Phoenissae, 130
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 5.20
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 1, 6.44
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 8, 3.8
    • Sextus Propertius, Elegies, 3.19
    • Columella, Res Rustica, 4.21.3
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