foedo

foedo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [id.], to make foul, filthy, hideous; to defile, pollute, disfigure, mar, deform (mostly poet. and in postAug. prose).

I.

Physically:

Harpyiae contactu omnia foedant immundo,

Verg. A. 3, 227:

foedare in pulvere crines,

id. ib. 12, 99:

canitiem vultusque seniles pulvere,

Ov. M. 8, 530:

ignes sanguine per aras,

Verg. A. 2, 502; Ov. M. 3, 723:

tellurem calido sanguine,

id. ib. 6, 238:

brachia tabo,

id. ib. 14, 190:

pectora pugnis, unguibus ora,

Verg. A. 11, 86:

ora,

Tac. Agr. 36:

aliquem verberibus,

id. H. 3, 77: ferro foedati jacent, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 3, 241 (Trag. v. 442 ed. Vahl.); cf.: foedant et proterunt hostium copias, i. e. mar or mutilate with wounds, wound, Plaut. Am. 1, 1, 91:

qui me (i. e. Prometheum) perenni vivum foedat miseria, Cic. Poët. Tusc. 2, 10, 24: obscenas pelagi ferro foedare volucres,

Verg. A. 3, 241:

foedati agri, terror injectus urbi est,

laid waste, Liv. 3, 26, 1.—Of inanim. subjects:

nulla tectoria eorum rimae foedavere,

Plin. 36, 23, 55, § 176: nubes foedavere lumen, Sall. Fragm. ap. Serv Verg. A. 2, 286; cf.:

aër assiduo noctem foedaverat imbre,

Claud. VI. Cons. Hon. 538.—

II.

Trop., to disgrace, dishonor, mar, sully: [p. 765] (Graeci) nos quoque dictitant barbaros et spurcius nos quam alios opicos appellatione foedant, Cato ap. Plin. 29, 1, 7, § 14:

foedati crimine turpi,

Lucr. 3, 49:

gloriam majorum,

Plaut. Trin. 3, 2, 30; cf.:

Romam ipsam foedavit adventus tuus,

Cic. Pis. 22, 53:

ne vestis serica viros foedaret,

Tac. A. 2, 33:

procerum conubiis mixtis,

id. G. 46:

castra pollui foedarique a Classico ne sinatis,

id. H. 4, 58:

egregia erga populum Romanum merita mox rebelles foedarunt,

id. ib. 4, 37:

foedata per avaritiam victoria,

id. A. 4, 19; 11, 6; 15, 32:

multiplici clade foedatus annus,

Liv. 3, 32, 4.