I.to besmear, to cover over, defile, pollute: aliquid, aliquā re (rare; not in class. prose).
I. Prop.: “ora venenis,” Ov. R. Am. 351: “tabulas cerā,” Gell. 17, 9, 17: crines adulteros pulvere, * Hor. C. 1, 15, 20 (cf. Verg. A. 12, 99: “foedare in pulvere crines): caeno collitus,” Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 4.—
II. Trop.: “pulchrum ornatum turpes mores pejus caeno collinunt,” Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 133; id. Poen. 1, 2, 96.