reseco

rĕ-sĕco, cŭi, ctum (resecavi, Symm. Ep. 10, 73:

resecata,

Eum. Grat. Act. ad Const. 11 fin. ), 1, v. a., to cut loose, cut off (class.; esp. in the trop. signif.; cf. praecido).

I.

Lit.:

ut linguae scalpello resectae liberarentur,

Cic. Div. 2, 46, 96:

os,

id. Leg. 2, 22, 55:

palpebras,

id. Pis. 19, 43:

enodes truncos,

Verg. G. 2, 78:

radices,

Ov. M. 7, 264:

longos ferro capillos,

id. ib. 11, 182:

de tergore partem Exiguam,

id. ib. 8, 650:

barba resecta,

id. Tr. 4, 10, 58:

alas,

id. R. Am. 701:

extremam partem ipsius unguis ad vivum,

to the quick, Col. 6, 12, 3; 5, 9, 15:

ungues,

Val. Max. 3, 2, 15.—

II.

Trop., to cut off, curtail; to check, stop, restrain:

quod aiunt, nimia resecari oportere, naturalia relinqui (shortly after, circumcidere and amputare),

Cic. Tusc. 4, 26, 57; cf. id. ib. 4, 20, 46:

quae resecanda erunt, non patiar ad perniciem civitatis manere,

id. Cat. 2, 5, 11:

libidinem,

id. Att. 1, 18, 2:

audacias et libidines,

id. Verr. 2, 3, 89, § 208:

crimina quaedam cum primā barbā,

Juv. 8, 166:

spatio brevi Spem longam reseces,

Hor. C. 1, 11, 7; cf.:

haec (dicta),

Plin. Ep. 2, 5, 4; Juv. 8, 166:

neque id ad vivum reseco, ut illi qui haec subtilius disserunt,

i. e. nor do I take this in too strict a sense, Cic. Lael. 5, 18 (v. supra, I.):

de vivo aliquid erat resecandum,

was to be cut from the quick, id. Verr. 2, 3, 50, § 118.