1. vĭŏlo — Lewis & Short
vĭŏlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a.vis,
I to treat with violence (corporeally, and, more freq., mentally), to injure, dishonor, outrage, violate (cf.: laedo, polluo, contamino).
I Lit. with persons as objects:
hospites violare fas non putant,to injure, do violence to, Caes. B. G. 6, 23 fin.:
aliquem,id. B. C. 3, 98:
patriam prodere, parentes violare,Cic. Fin. 3, 9, 32.—Esp.: virginem, Auct. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, § 80 Müll.; Tib. 1, 6, 51; cf. Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 1 fin.:
sacrum vulnere corpus,Verg. A. 11, 591; cf.:
Getico peream violatus ab arcu,Ov. P. 3, 5, 45.—
II Transf.
A With places as objects, to invade, violate, profane:
fines eorum se violaturum negavit,Caes. B. G. 6, 32:
loca religiosa et lucos,Cic. Rab. Perd. 2, 7:
Iliacos agros ferro,Verg. A. 11, 255:
Cereale nemus securi,Ov. M. 8, 741:
silva vetus nullāque diu violata securi,id. F. 4, 649.—
B With the senses as objects, to outrage, shock:
oculos nostros (tua epistola),Ov. H. 17, 1; cf.:
aures meas obsceno sermone,Petr. 85.—
C With abstract objects, to violate, outrage, break, injure, etc.:
officium,Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 109:
jus,id. Leg. 2, 9, 22:
religionem,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 72, § 186:
virginitatem alicujus,id. N. D. 3, 23, 59:
vitam patris,id. Par. 3, 25:
inducias per scelus,to break, Caes. B. C. 2, 15:
foedera,Liv. 28, 44, 7; Tib. 1, 9, 2:
amicitiam,Cic. Phil. 2, 1, 3:
existimationem absentis,id. Quint. 23, 73; cf.:
nominis nostri famam tuis probris,Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 32, § 82:
dignitatem alicujus in aliquā re,id. Fam. 1, 6, 2; cf.:
injuriae sunt, quae aut pulsatione corpus aut convicio aures aut aliquā turpitudine vitam cujuspiam violant,Auct. Her. 4, 25, 35.—
III Trop. (rare and poet.):
Indum sanguineo ostro ebur,i. e. to dye of a blood-red, Verg. A. 12, 67 (an imitation of the Homeric e)le/fanta foi/niki mih/nh, Il. 4, 141).