violo

vĭŏlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [vis], to treat with violence (corporeally, and, more freq., mentally), to injure, dishonor, outrage, violate (cf.: laedo, polluo, contamino).

I.

Lit. with persons as objects:

hospites violare fas non putant,

to injure, do violence to, Caes. B. G. 6, 23 fin.:

aliquem,

id. B. C. 3, 98:

patriam prodere, parentes violare,

Cic. Fin. 3, 9, 32.—Esp.: virginem, Auct. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, § 80 Müll.; Tib. 1, 6, 51; cf. Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 1 fin.:

sacrum vulnere corpus,

Verg. A. 11, 591; cf.:

Getico peream violatus ab arcu,

Ov. P. 3, 5, 45.—

II.

Transf.

A.

With places as objects, to invade, violate, profane:

fines eorum se violaturum negavit,

Caes. B. G. 6, 32:

loca religiosa et lucos,

Cic. Rab. Perd. 2, 7:

Iliacos agros ferro,

Verg. A. 11, 255:

Cereale nemus securi,

Ov. M. 8, 741:

silva vetus nullāque diu violata securi,

id. F. 4, 649.—

B.

With the senses as objects, to outrage, shock:

oculos nostros (tua epistola),

Ov. H. 17, 1; cf.:

aures meas obsceno sermone,

Petr. 85.—

C.

With abstract objects, to violate, outrage, break, injure, etc.:

officium,

Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 109:

jus,

id. Leg. 2, 9, 22:

religionem,

id. Verr. 2, 5, 72, § 186:

virginitatem alicujus,

id. N. D. 3, 23, 59:

vitam patris,

id. Par. 3, 25:

inducias per scelus,

to break, Caes. B. C. 2, 15:

foedera,

Liv. 28, 44, 7; Tib. 1, 9, 2:

amicitiam,

Cic. Phil. 2, 1, 3:

existimationem absentis,

id. Quint. 23, 73; cf.:

nominis nostri famam tuis probris,

id. Verr. 2, 1, 32, § 82:

dignitatem alicujus in aliquā re,

id. Fam. 1, 6, 2; cf.:

injuriae sunt, quae aut pulsatione corpus aut convicio aures aut aliquā turpitudine vitam cujuspiam violant,

Auct. Her. 4, 25, 35.—

III.

Trop. (rare and poet. ):

Indum sanguineo ostro ebur,

i. e. to dye of a blood-red, Verg. A. 12, 67 (an imitation of the Homeric elephanta phoiniki miênê, Il. 4, 141).