1. tundo — Lewis & Short
tundo, tŭtŭdi, tunsum, tūssum, and tusum (v. Neue, Formenl. II. 568), 3 (old collat. form of the
I perf. tuserunt, Naev. 1, 1: tunsi, acc. to Diom. p. 369 P.; inf. tundier, Lucr. 4, 934), v. a. Sanscr. tu-dāmi, thrust; cf. Gr. *tudeu/s, *tunda/reos, to beat, strike, thump, buffet with repeated strokes.
I Lit.
A In gen. (class.; cf.:
verbero, pulso, ico, impello, cudo): oculos converso bacillo,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 54, § 142:
pectus palo,Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 3:
pectora manu,Ov. Am. 3, 9, 10; id. M. 8, 535; Verg. A. 11, 37:
inania tympana,Ov. F. 4, 183:
tundere ac diverberare ubera,App. M. 7, p. 200, 2:
lapidem digito cum tundimus,Lucr. 4, 265:
corpus crebro ictu,id. 4, 934:
pede terram,Hor. A. P. 430:
humum ossibus,Ov. M. 5, 293:
ulmum (picus),Plaut. As. 2, 1, 14:
litus undā,Cat. 11, 4; cf.:
saxa alto salo,Hor. Epod. 17, 55:
cymbala rauca,Prop. 3 (4), 16, 36.
chelyn digitis errantibus,Stat. S. 5, 5, 33:
gens effrena virum Rhipaeo tunditur Euro,Verg. G. 3, 382:
saxum, quod tumidis tunditur olim Fluctibus,id. A. 5, 125:
miserum sancto tundere poste caput,Tib. 1, 2, 86:
ferrum rubens non est habile tundendo,i. e. is not easy to beat out, not very malleable, Plin. 34, 15, 43, § 149.—In a Greek construction:
tunsae pectora palmis,Verg. A. 1, 481. —Prov.: uno opere eandem incudem diem noctemque tundere, to hammer the same anvil, i. e. to keep at the same work, Cic. de Or. 2, 39, 162.—
B In partic., to pound, bruise, bray, as in a mortar (cf. pinso):
aliquid in pilā,Plin. 13, 22, 43, § 126; 20, 19, 79, § 207:
in farinam,id. 33, 7, 40, § 119:
in pollinem,id. 19, 5, 29, § 91:
tunsum gallae admiscere saporem,Verg. G. 4, 267:
tunsa viscera,id. ib. 4, 302:
grana mali Punici tunsa,Col. 9, 13, 5:
tunsum allium,id. 6, 8, 2 al.:
testam tusam et succretam arenae adicere,Vitr. 2, 5:
testa tunsa,Plin. 36, 25, 62, § 186:
hordeum,App. M. 4, p. 152, 31:
haec omnia tusa,Veg. Vet. 1, 16, 6.—
II Trop. (qs. to keep pounding or hammering at a person), to din, stun, keep on at, importune a person by repeating the same thing (poet. and rare):
pergin' aures tundere?Plaut. Poen. 1, 3, 25:
assiduis hinc atque hinc vocibus heros Tunditur,Verg. A. 4, 448:
tundat Amycle, Natalem Mais Idibus esse tuum,Prop. 4 (5), 5, 35.—Absol.:
tundendo atque odio denique effecit senex,Ter. Hec. 1, 2, 48.