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truncus , a, um,
I.adj [root tark-, truc-, to break, tear; cf. torqueo], maimed, mutilated, mangled, dismembered, disfigured, deprived of some of its parts (mostly poet. and perh. not ante-Aug.; syn.: mutilus, mancus).
I. Lit.: “trunca manu pinus regit (Polyphemum),” i. e. the trunk of a pinetree, Verg. A. 3, 659: “trunca illa et retorrida manus Mucii,Sen. Ep. 66, 51: “nemora,” i. e. trees stripped of their branches, Stat. Th. 4, 455: “truncas mhonesto vulnere nares,Verg. A. 6, 497: “vultus naribus auribusque,Mart. 2, 83, 3: “frons,deprived of its horn, Ov. M. 9, 1; 9, 86; Sil. 3, 42: “frontem lumina truncam,deprived of its eyes, id. 9, 400: “bracchia non habuit, truncoque repandus in undas Corpore desiluit,deprived of its limbs, Ov. M. 3, 680; cf. Just. 2, 9, 19: “puerum trunci corporis in agro Romano natum,Liv. 41, 9, 5: “varie ex integris truncos gigni, ex truncis integros,Plin. 7, 11, 10, § 50: “tela,” i.e. broken in pieces, Verg. A. 11, 9; cf.: “trunci enses et fractae hastae,Stat. Th. 2, 711: “truncum lignum, i. e. hasta fracta,Val. Fl. 6, 251: membra carmae, Ov M. 11, 560; cf. “alnus,without oars, Val. Fl. 2, 300: “truncae atque mutilae litterae,Gell. 17, 9, 12: “exta,Val. Max. 1, 6, 9.—
(β). Poet., with gen.: “animalia trunca pedum,without feet, Verg. G. 4, 310: truncus capitis, Sil 10, 311.—
B. Transf.
1. Of things, not developed, imperfect, or wanting in their parts: “quaedam imperfecta (animalia) suisque Trunca vident numeris,Ov. M. 1, 428: “ranae pedibus,id. ib. 15, 376: “ipse (nanus) jactabat truncas manus,Prop. 4 (5), 8, 42.mdash;
2. Of members cut off: “bracchia,Val. Fl. 4, 181: “manus,Sen. Contr 1, 4.—
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (24):
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 15.376
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 1.428
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 3.659
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 6.497
    • Vergil, Aeneid, 11.9
    • Vergil, Georgics, 4.310
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 3.680
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.1
    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 7.50
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 41, 9.5
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 31, 29
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 2.300
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 4.181
    • C. Valerius Flaccus, Argonautica, 6.251
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 11, 3.85
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 17.9.12
    • Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 2.23.21
    • Seneca, Epistulae, 66.51
    • Statius, Thebias, 12
    • Statius, Thebias, 2
    • Statius, Thebias, 4
    • Statius, Thebias, 5
    • Seneca the Elder, Controversiae, 1.4
    • Valerius Maximus, Facta et Dicta Memorabilia, 1.6.9
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