conruptela

corruptēla ( conr- ), ante-class. also corrumptēla, ae, f. [corrumpo], that which corrupts, a corrupting, corruption, seduction, bribery, etc.

I.

Prop. (freq. and class. in sing. and plur.):

mores hac (sc. cantūs) dulcedine corruptelaque depravati,

Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 38:

collapsus est hic in corruptelam suam,

Plaut. Truc. 3, 2, 3:

quem (adulescentulum) corruptelarum illecebris irretisses,

Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 13:

stupra dico et corruptelas et adulteria,

id. Tusc. 4, 35, 75; cf. Suet. Claud. 16:

via una corruptelae Bacchanalia erant,

Liv. 39, 9, 3: malae consuetudinis ( gen. subj. ), Cic. Leg. 1, 12, 33: mulierum ( gen. obj. ), id. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 134; cf.

servi,

id. Deiot. 11, 30.—

II.

Meton. (abstr. pro concreto).

A.

A corrupter, seducer, misleader:

nostrūm liberūm,

Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 7:

is apud scortum corrumptelast liberis,

Plaut. As. 5, 2, 17.—

* B.

A place of seduction, Front. Aquaed. 76.