foedo — Lewis & Short
foedo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.id.,
I to make foul, filthy, hideous; to defile, pollute, disfigure, mar, deform (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose).
I Physically:
Harpyiae contactu omnia foedant immundo,Verg. A. 3, 227:
foedare in pulvere crines,id. ib. 12, 99:
canitiem vultusque seniles pulvere,Ov. M. 8, 530:
ignes sanguine per aras,Verg. A. 2, 502; Ov. M. 3, 723:
tellurem calido sanguine,id. ib. 6, 238:
brachia tabo,id. ib. 14, 190:
pectora pugnis, unguibus ora,Verg. A. 11, 86:
ora,Tac. Agr. 36:
aliquem verberibus,id. H. 3, 77: ferro foedati jacent, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 3, 241 (Trag. v. 442 ed. Vahl.); cf.: foedant et proterunt hostium copias, i. e. mar or mutilate with wounds, wound, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 91:
qui me (i. e. Prometheum) perenni vivum foedat miseria, Cic. Poët. Tusc. 2, 10, 24: obscenas pelagi ferro foedare volucres,Verg. A. 3, 241:
foedati agri, terror injectus urbi est,laid waste, Liv. 3, 26, 1.—Of inanim. subjects:
nulla tectoria eorum rimae foedavere,Plin. 36, 23, 55, § 176: nubes foedavere lumen, Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv Verg. A. 2, 286; cf.:
aër assiduo noctem foedaverat imbre,Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 538.—
II Trop., to disgrace, dishonor, mar, sully: (Graeci) nos quoque dictitant barbaros et spurcius nos quam alios opicos appellatione foedant, Cato ap. Plin. 29, 1, 7, § 14:
foedati crimine turpi,Lucr. 3, 49:
gloriam majorum,Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 30; cf.:
Romam ipsam foedavit adventus tuus,Cic. Pis. 22, 53:
ne vestis serica viros foedaret,Tac. A. 2, 33:
procerum conubiis mixtis,id. G. 46:
castra pollui foedarique a Classico ne sinatis,id. H. 4, 58:
egregia erga populum Romanum merita mox rebelles foedarunt,id. ib. 4, 37:
foedata per avaritiam victoria,id. A. 4, 19; 11, 6; 15, 32:
multiplici clade foedatus annus,Liv. 3, 32, 4.