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crŭcĭātus , ūs, m.,
I.torture, torment, a torturing, execution, etc. (often syn. with supplicium; freq. and class. in sing. and plur.).
B. In gen., ruin, calamity, misfortune (esp. in curses, etc.): “maximum in malum cruciatumque insiliamus,into utter ruin, Plaut. Mil. 2, 3, 8: “cum cruciatu tuo istaec hodie verba funditas,” i. e. to thy ruin, misfortune, id. Am. 4, 2, 13; 2, 2, 161; id. Capt. 3, 5, 23: “abi in malum cruciatum,go to the gallows, go hang, id. Aul. 3, 3, 11; id. Pers. 4, 4, 25; cf. crux, II.—
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  • Cross-references in general dictionaries from this page (23):
    • Cicero, Letters to his Friends, 16.21.2
    • Cicero, Letters to Atticus, 11.11.1
    • Caesar, Gallic War, 1.31.12
    • Cicero, Against Catiline, 4.5.10
    • Cicero, For Sextus Roscius of Ameria, 41.119
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.1.9
    • Cicero, Against Verres, 2.5.163
    • Ovid, Metamorphoses, 9.179
    • Plautus, Bacchides, 4.4
    • Plautus, Epidicus, 5.1
    • Plautus, Persa, 4.4
    • Plautus, Rudens, 2.6
    • Plautus, Amphitruo, 4.2
    • Plautus, Aulularia, 3.3
    • Plautus, Bacchides, 4.9
    • Plautus, Captivi, 3.5
    • Plautus, Miles Gloriosus, 2.3
    • Plautus, Pseudolus, 3.1
    • Sallust, Catilinae Coniuratio, 51
    • Livy, The History of Rome, Book 29, 18.14
    • Cicero, De Divinatione, 2.9
    • Quintilian, Institutio Oratoria, Book 5, 4.2
    • Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum, 24
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