adtondeo

at-tondĕo (better than adt- ), tondi, tonsum, 2, v. a. ( perf. redupl. sync. attodisse = attotondisse or attondisse, Verg. Cat. 8, 9:

* attondi = attonderi,

Veg. Art. Vet. 2, 28, 36 ), to shave, shear, clip, crop (rare, and mostly poet.;

syn.: tondeo, carpo, puto): rusticus Saturni dente relictam Persequitur vitem attondens,

pruning, he cuts off the vine around, Verg. G. 2, 407:

caput attonsum,

Cels. 4, 3; and Vulg. Ezech. 44, 20:

comam,

ib. Lev. 19, 27; so,

ad cutem,

Scrib. Comp. 10.— Poet., to gnaw at, nibble:

tenera attondent virgulta capellae,

Verg. E. 10, 7:

attonsa arva,

i. e. fed down, Luc. 6, 84:

prata,

Aus. Mos. 203.— Trop.: consiliis nostris laus est attonsa Laconum, shorn, [p. 197] i. e. diminished, lessened, vet. poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 5, 17, 49 (as transl. of the Gr. Hêmeterais boulais Spartê men ekeirato doxan, Plut. 2, p. 1098):

sic quoque attondentur,

cut off, Vulg. Nahum, 1, 12: attondere aliquem, i. e. to cheat, fleece (cf. admutilo), Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 18;

and in a pun: attonsae quidem ambae usque sunt (oves),

id. Bacch. 5, 2, 7; 5, 1, 9:

metuo, si senex resciverit, Ne ulmos parasitos faciat, quae usque attondeant,

rough-hew me, id. Ep. 2, 3, 6 (cf. Horace's fuste dolat, S. 1, 5, 23).