nūdo — Lewis & Short
nūdo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.nudus,
I to make naked or bare; to strip, bare, lay bare, expose to view, uncover (syn.: exuo, detego, revelo).
I Lit.
A In gen.: nudare inter cives corpora, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 33, 70 (Trag. v. 426 Vahl.):
hominem nudari ac deligari jubet,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 62, § 161:
nudatum caput,Verg. A. 12, 312:
duros nudantia dentes,Lucr. 5, 1064; Quint. 11, 3, 81:
gladios,Liv. 28, 33:
telum nudatum vaginā,Nep. Dat. 11, 4:
viscera,Verg. A. 1, 211:
crura,id. G. 2, 7; Tac. A. 6, 33:
si interrupto nudaret gurgite pontum,Tib. 4, 1, 75:
nudata cacumina silvae Ostendunt,Ov. M. 1, 345:
ubera,id. ib. 10, 391:
tertia nudandas acceperat area messes,i. e. to be threshed out, id. F. 3, 557.—
B In partic.
1 In milit. lang., to leave uncovered, leave exposed or defenceless, to expose a place to the enemy:
latera sua,Liv. 1, 27:
murus nudatus defensoribus,Caes. B. G. 2, 6; Liv. 21, 11:
collis nudatus hominibus,Caes. B. G. 7, 44:
neque sibi nudanda litora existimabant,id. B. C. 3, 15:
ne castra nudentur,id. B. G. 7, 70:
praesidiis nudatus,Sall. J. 88, 4; Liv. 30, 2, 5:
terga fugā nudant,Verg. A. 5, 586. —
2 Pregn., to strip, spoil, plunder:
spoliavit nudavitque omnia,Cic. Verr. 1, 5, 14:
agros nudare populando,Liv. 44, 27:
opibus,id. 42, 50:
quem praeceps alea nudat,Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 21:
moveat cornicula risum Furtivis nudata coloribus,id. ib. 1, 3, 19:
nec nuder ab illis,Ov. Tr. 1, 6, 7.—
II Trop.
A To lay bare, expose:
te evolutum illis integumentis dissimulationis tuae nudatumque perspicio,Cic. de Or. 2, 86, 350:
vis ingenii etiamsi hac scientiā juris nudata sit,id. ib. 1, 38, 172.—
B To lay bare, make visible, expose, betray, disclose:
defectionem,Liv. 35, 32:
nec illi primo statim creati nudare, quid vellent,id. 24, 27:
fama equestris pugnae nudavit voluntates hominum,id. 42, 63:
ne poena ejus consilia adversus Romanos nudaret,id. 40, 24:
animos,id. 33, 21; Hor. S. 2, 5, 47:
ingenium res Adversae nudare solent, celare secundae,id. ib. 2, 8, 74:
alicui amorem,Tib. 4, 7, 2.—
C To deprive of, strip of:
nudata omnibus rebus tribunicia potestas,Caes. B. C. 1, 7: nudatos opere censorio aut sententiā judicum de ambitu condemnatos restituit, those who had been stripped by the censor of their rights and privileges, Suet. Caes. 41 (al. notatos):
cum tuo exercitusque tui praesidio nudatam Italiam viderint,Liv. 28, 42.