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decurto

mutila

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Where it lives

Orator 1 · 0.54/10k
Naturalis Historia 1 · 0.03/10k

What it meant

dē-curto — Lewis & Short

dē-curto, no

I perf., ātum, 1 (only in the part. praes. and perf.), v. a., to cut off, curtail, mutilate.

I Lit.: radices, Plin. 25, 5, 21, § 53: amicum undique decurtatum, cum aures illi nasumque abscidisset, in cavea diu pavit, Sen. Ira, 3, 17: peniculamenta canteriorum, Arn. 5, p. 163.—

II Trop., of style: mutila sentit quaedam et quasi decurtata, Cic. Or. 53, 178.

In the wild

decurtatae Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia 25.5.p6
decurtata Cicero, Orator 178.p1

Where it came from

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