The corpus record — Latin

admordeo

admordeo · v. a

to bite at

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Persa 1 · 1.27/10k
Epistularum 1 · 1.1/10k
Georgicon 1 · 0.71/10k
Elegiae 1 · 0.4/10k
Punica 2 · 0.26/10k

What it meant

ad-mordĕo — Lewis & Short

ad-mordĕo, rsum, 2, v. a. (

I perf. admemordi, Plaut. Aul. Fragm. ap. Gell. 6, 9, 6), to bite at or gnaw, to bite into (cf. accīdo, to cut into).

I Lit.: admorso signata in stirpe cicatrix, Verg. G. 2, 379.—So of Cleopatra: bracchia admorsa colubris, Prop. 4, 10, 53.—

II Fig., of a miser, to bite, i. e. get possession of some of one's property, to fleece him: lepidum est, triparcos, vetulos bene admordere, Plaut. Pers. 2, 3, 14: jam admordere hunc mihi lubet, i. e. aggredi et ab eo aliquid corradere, id. Ps. 4, 7, 24.

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