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|lshtext=<b>ăb-horrĕo</b>: ui, ēre, 2, v. n. and<br /><b>I</b> a., to [[shrink]] [[back]] from a [[thing]], to [[shudder]] at, [[abhor]].<br /><b>I</b> Lit. (syn. [[aversor]]; [[rare]] [[but]] [[class]].); constr. [[with]] ab or absol., [[sometimes]] [[with]] the acc. (not so in [[Cicero]]; cf. Haase ad Reisig Vorles. p. 696): [[retro]] volgus abhorret ab hac, shrinks [[back]] from, Lucr. 1, 945; 4, 20: omnes aspernabantur, omnes abhorrebant, etc., Cic. Clu. 14, 41: [[quid]] tam abhorret [[hilaritudo]]? Plaut. Cist. 1, 1, 56: pumilos [[atque]] distortos, Suet. Aug. 83; so id. Galb. 4; Vit. 10.<br /><b>II</b> Transf., in gen.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> To be [[averse]] or disinclined to a [[thing]], not to [[wish]] it, usu. [[with]] ab: a nuptiis, Ter. Hec. 4, 4, 92: ab re uxoriā, id. And. 5, 1, 10; and so [[often]] in Cic.: Caesaris a causā, Cic. Sest. 33: a caede, id. ib. 63: ab horum turpitudine, audaciā, sordibus, id. ib. 52, 112: a scribendo abhorret [[animus]], id. Att. 2, 6: [[animo]] abhorruisse ab optimo statu civitatis, id. Phil. 7, 2: a ceterorum consilio, Nep. Milt. 3, 5 al.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In a [[yet]] [[more]] [[general]] [[sense]], to be [[remote]] from an [[object]], i. e. to [[vary]] or [[differ]] from, to be [[inconsistent]] or not to [[agree]] [[with]] (freq. and [[class]].): [[temeritas]] tanta, ut non [[procul]] abhorreat ab insaniā, Cic. Rosc. Am. 24, 68: a vulgari genere orationis [[atque]] a consuetudine [[communis]] [[sensus]], id. de Or. 1, 3, 12: [[oratio]] abhorrens a personā hominis gravissimi, id. Rep. 1, 15: ab opinione tuā, id. Verr. 2, 3, 20: Punicum abhorrens os ab Latinorum nominum prolatione, Liv. 22, 13; so id. 29, 6; 30, 44: a [[fide]], to be [[incredible]], id. 9, 36: a tuo scelere, is not [[connected]] [[with]], Cic. Cat. 1, 7 al. —Hence, [[like]] [[dispar]], [[with]] dat.: tam pacatae profectioni abhorrens mos, not [[accordant]] [[with]], Liv. 2, 14.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To be [[free]] from: [[Caelius]] [[longe]] ab istā suspicione abhorrere debet, Cic. Cael. 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>3</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Absol.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To [[alter]]: [[tantum]] abhorret ac mutat, alters and changes, Cat. 22, 11.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; To be [[unfit]]: [[sin]] [[plane]] abhorrebit et erit [[absurdus]], Cic. de Or. 2, 20, 85; cf.: absurdae [[atque]] abhorrentes lacrimae, Liv. 30, 44, 6; and: [[carmen]] abhorrens et inconditum, id. 27, 37, 13.
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