respergo

1.

rē-spergo, si, sum, 3, v. a., to sprinkle over any thing; to besprinkle, bestrew (rare but class.).

I.

Lit.:

praetoris oculos,

Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 38, § 100:

manus, os, simulacrum sanguine,

id. Rosc. Am. 24, 68:

morientium sanguine os uxoris respersum,

id. Phil. 3, 2, 4; id. de Or. 3, 3, 10; cf.:

aliquem cruore,

Liv. 21, 63:

sanguine dextram,

Cat. 64, 230; Curt. 8, 3, 11:

comae respersae sanguine,

Ov. F. 3, 452: caede fraternā juvenis respersus, Cat 64, 181; Suet. Ner. 12; id. Calig. 57:

se sanguine nefando,

Liv. 1, 13:

quidquid fuerat mortale aquis,

Ov. M. 14, 604: vino rogum ne respargito, Lex Numae ap. Plin. 14, 12, 14, § 88; cf. Fest. p. 262 Müll.:

alicubi labi necesse est, alicubi respergi,

to be splashed, spattered, Sen. Ira, 3, 6: pelagus respergit, Att. ap. Cic. N. D. 2, 35, 89. — Poet.: cum primum Aurora respergit lumine terras, Lucr. ap. Macr. S. 6, 1, 25 (cf. spargit, Lucr. 2, 144):

nullā nube respersus jubar,

i. e. beclouded, dimmed, Sen. Herc. Oet. 723. —

* B.

Transf., to spread out:

ut nux repercussa radicem respergat,

Pall. Jan. 15, 15. —

II.

Trop., to besprinkle, bespatter, defile, etc.:

servili probro respersus est,

Tac. H. 1, 48:

aliquem infamiā,

Quint. Decl. 18, 3.

2.

rēspergo, ĭnis, f. [1. respergo], a besprinkling (late Lat.):

marmoris,

Prud. adv. Symm. 1, 503.