mutilus

mŭtĭlus, a, um, adj. [mitulos or mutilos], maimed, mutilated (class.; syn.: truncus, curtus, mancus).

I.

Lit. So of those who cut off a thumb to escape military service, Cod. Th. 7, 13, 10:

grabatulus uno pede mutilus,

App. M. 1, p. 107, 19:

naves (al. mutilatae),

Liv. 37, 24:

litterae,

Gell. 17, 9, 12. —Of horned animals which have lost one or both horns:

bos,

Varr. L. L. 9, § 33 Müll.:

alces mutilae sunt cornibus,

without horns, Caes. B. G. 6, 26:

capella,

Col. 7, 6.—Hence jestingly, transf.:

sic mutilus (i. e. exsecto cornu) minitaris?

Hor. S. 1, 5, 60.—

II.

Trop.:

mutila et quasi decurtata (in oratione) sentire,

Cic. Or. 53, 178:

mutila quaedam et hiantia loqui,

too briefly, id. ib. 9, 32.