exsecro

ex-sē̆cror ( execr- ), ātus, 1, v. dep. a. and n. [sacer], to curse, execrate.

I.

Prop. (class.;

syn.: abominor, detestor, abhorreo, horreo, aversor, devoveo): te oderunt, tibi pestem exoptant, te exsecrantur,

Cic. Pis. 40, 96;

(with male precari),

id. ib. 14, 33:

aliquem,

id. Leg. 1, 12, 33; id. Off. 3, 3, 11:

consilia Catilinae,

Sall. C. 48, 1:

severitatem nimiam et assidua belli pericula,

Just. 13, 1:

superbiam regis,

id. 39, 1:

litem,

Dig. 4, 7, 4 et saep.:

in se ac suum ipsius caput,

Liv. 30, 20, 7:

exsecratus deinde in caput regnumque Prusiae,

id. 39, 51 fin.:

exsecratur Thyestes, ut naufragio pereat Atreus,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 44, 107:

verba exsecrantia,

Ov. M. 5, 105 et saep.—

* II.

Transf., to take a solemn oath with imprecations (against its infringement):

eamus omnis execrata civitas (= his votis cum exsecratione conceptis),

Hor. Epod. 16, 36; cf. v. 18.

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1.

Also, act.: exsecro, āre: exsecrabant se ac suos, Afran. ap. Non. 473, 24; cf. Prisc. p. 797 P.—

2.

exsē̆crātus, a, um, in pass. signif. and as P. a., accursed, execrable, detestable:

non te exsecratum populo Romano, non detestabilem, etc.... scias,

Cic. Phil. 2, 26 fin.: exsules duo, Cato ap. Prisc. p. 792 P.:

columna,

Cic. Phil. 1, 2, 5; Vulg. Apoc. 21, 8.— Sup.:

exsecratissima auguria,

Plin. 28, 2, 5, § 27.—

3.

exsē̆crandus, a, um, as P. a., detestable (late Lat.); Vulg. Levit. 11, 10: libido, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 6, 4, 2 Huschke.— Sup.:

exsecrandissimum nefas,

Salv. Gub. D. 7, 19.