caedes

caedes, is ( gen. plur. regularly caedium, Liv. 1, 13, 3; Just. 11, 13, 9; Flor. 3, 18, 14 al.;

but caedum,

Sil. 2, 665; 4, 353; 4, 423; 4, 796; 5, 220; 10, 233; Amm. 22, 12, 1; 29, 5, 27; cf. Prisc. p. 771 P), f. [caedo].

I.

Lit.

A.

In gen., a cutting or lopping off (post-class. and rare):

ligni atque frondium caedes,

Gell. 19, 12, 7:

capilli, qui caede cultrorum desecti,

App. M. 3.—

B.

Esp. (acc. to caedo, I. B. 1.; cf. cado, I. B. 2.), a cutting down, slaughter, massacre, carnage; esp. in battle or by an assassin; murder (usu. class. signif. of the word in prose and poetry;

esp. freq. in the histt. in Suet. alone more than twenty times): pugnam caedesque petessit,

Lucr. 3, 648:

caedem caede accumulantes,

id. 3, 71: caedem ( the deadly slaughter, conflict ) in quā P. Clodius occisus est, Cic. Mil. 5, 12:

caedes et occisio,

id. Caecil. 14, 41:

magistratuum privatorumque caedes,

id. Mil. 32, 87:

cum in silvā Silā facta caedes esset,

id. Brut. 22, 85:

notat (Catilina) et designat oculis ad caedem unumquemque nostrum,

id. Cat. 1, 1, 2:

jam non pugna sed caedes erat,

Curt. 4, 15, 32:

caedes inde, non jam pugna fuit,

Liv. 23, 40, 11:

ex mediā caede effugere,

id. 23, 29, 15:

cum caedibus et incendiis agrum perpopulari,

id. 34, 56, 10:

silvestres homines... Caedibus et victu foedo deterruit Orpheus,

Hor. A. P. 392:

magnā caede factā multisque occisis,

Nep. Epam. 9, 1:

caedes civium,

id. ib. 10, 3:

caedem in aliquem facere,

Sall. J. 31, 13; Liv. 2, 64, 3:

edere,

id. 5, 45, 8; 40, 32, 6; Just. 2, 11:

perpetrare,

Liv. 45, 5, 5:

committere,

Ov. H. 14, 59; Quint. 5, 12, 3; 10, 1, 12; 7, 4, 43; Curt. 8, 2:

admittere,

Suet. Tib. 37:

peragere,

Luc. 3, 580:

abnuere,

Tac. A. 1, 23:

festinare,

id. ib. 1, 3:

ab omni caede abhorrere,

Suet. Dom. 9: portendere, Sall.J. 3, 2; Suet. Calig. 57 et saep.; cf.

in the poets,

Cat. 64, 77; Verg. A. 2, 500; 10, 119; Hor. C. 1, 8, 16; 2, 1, 35; 3, 2, 12; 3, 24, 26; 4, 4, 59; Ov. M. 1, 161; 4, 503; 3, 625; 4, 160; 5, 69; 6, 669.—

2.

The slaughter of animals, esp. of victims:

studiosus caedis ferinae, i. e. ferarum,

Ov. M. 7, 675; so id. ib. 7, 809; cf.

ferarum,

id. ib. 2, 442;

15, 106: armenti,

id. ib. 10, 541:

boum,

id. ib. 11, 371:

juvenci,

id. ib. 15, 129:

bidentium,

Hor. C. 3, 23, 14:

juvencorum,

Mart. 14, 4, 1.—

II.

Meton.

A.

(Abstr. pro concreto.) The persons slain or murdered, the slain:

caedis acervi,

Verg. A. 10, 245:

plenae caedibus viae,

Tac. H. 4, 1.—

B.

Also meton. as in Gr. phonos, the blood shed by murder, gore, Lucr. 3, 643; 5, 1312:

permixta flumina caede,

Cat. 64, 360:

respersus fraternā caede,

id. 64, 181:

madefient caede sepulcra,

id. 64, 368:

tepidā recens Caede locus,

Verg. A. 9, 456:

sparsae caede comae,

Prop. 2, 8, 34:

caede madentes,

Ov. M. 1, 149; 14, 199; 3, 143; 4, 97; 4, 125; 4, 163; 6, 657; 8, 444; 9, 73; 13, 389; 15, 174.—

C.

An attempt to murder:

nostrae injuria caedis,

Verg. A. 3, 256.—

D.

A striking with the fist, a beating (post-class.): contumeliosa, Don. Ter. Ad. 2, 1, 46:

nimia,

id. ib. 4, 2, 19; 2, 1, 18.