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turpo , āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. id.,
I.to make ugly or unsightly, to soil, defile, pollute, disfigure, deform (mostly poet.; cf. deformo).
I. Lit.: Jovis aram sanguine turpari, to be defiled or polluted, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 1, 35, 85; 3, 19, 45 (Trag. v. 125 Vahl.): “sanguine capillos,Verg. A. 10, 832: “canitiem pulvere,id. ib. 12, 611: “frontem (cicatrix),Hor. S. 1, 5, 61; cf.: “candidos umeros (rixae),id. C. 1, 13, 10: “ora (pallor),Sil. 7, 631: “te quia rugae Turpant et capitis nives,Hor. C. 4, 13, 12: “ipsos (scabies),Tac. H. 5, 4: “Herculea turpatus gymnade vultus,Stat. Th 4, 106.—
II. Trop., to dishonor, disgrace: “ornamenta, Cic. Fragm. ap. Hier Ep. 66, 7: avos,Stat. Th. 8, 433: “afflictos Argos,id. ib. 10, 437.
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    • Vergil, Aeneid, 10.832
    • Horace, Satires, 1.5.61
    • Tacitus, Historiae, 5.4
    • Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, 1.35
    • Statius, Thebias, 8
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