dierectus

di-ērectus (in Plaut. always trisyllabic), a um, P. a. [erigo], qs. stretched out and raised on high, i. e. crucified (only in Plautus and Varro; not in Terence), an abusive expression, like the English Go and be hanged! gallowsbird, etc. (cf. furcifer, and v. Brix ad Plaut. Trin. 457; Lorence ad Plaut. Most. 837):

i hinc dierectus,

Plaut. Merc. 1, 72:

abin dierectus,

id. ib. 4, 4, 16; id. Cas. 1, 15; id. Poen. 1, 1, 32:

recede hinc dierecte,

id. Bacch. 4, 1, 7:

abi dierecte,

id. Most. 1, 1, 8; id. Trin. 2, 4, 56:

i dierecte in maxumam malam crucem,

id. Poen. 1, 2, 134:

i dierectum, cor meum, ac suspende te,

id. Capt. 3, 4, 103:

abi hinc dierecte. Abin hinc in malam crucem?

id. Most. 3, 2, 163:

quin tu i dierecta cum sucula et cum porculis,

id. Rud. 4, 4, 126.—

II.

Transf.:

ducit lembum jam dierectum navis praedatoria,

Plaut. Men. 2, 3, 87:

lien dierectu'st,

is gone to the crows, is destroyed, id. Curc. 2, 1, 29: apage in dierectum a domo nostra istam insanitatem, Varr. ap. Non. 49, 26.