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|lshtext=<b>rōdo</b>: si, [[sum]], 3, v. a. cf. [[rado]],<br /><b>I</b> to [[gnaw]] ([[class]].).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.: [[rutabulum]], Novat. ap. Fest. p. 262 Müll. (Com. Rel. p. 226 Rib.): clipeos, etc. (mures), Cic. Div. 2, 27, 59: praetextam, Poët. ap. Quint. 8, 3, 19: dente pollicem, Hor. Epod. 5, 48: vivos ungues, id. S. 1, 10, 71: vitem ([[caper]]), Ov. F. 1, 357: saxa capellae, id. M. 13, 691: reliquias (mures), Phaedr. 1, 22, 6: [[rosus]] tineis, Stat. S. 4, 9, 10. —<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., to [[eat]] [[away]], [[waste]] [[away]], [[corrode]], [[consume]]: ripas (flumina), Lucr. 5, 256: [[ferrum]] ([[robigo]]), Ov. P. 1, 1, 71: tophum ([[calx]]), Plin. 36, 22, 48, § 166. —<br /><b>II</b> Trop., to [[backbite]], [[slander]], [[disparage]], etc. (syn. [[vellico]]): in conviviis rodunt, Cic. Balb. 26, 57: absentem amicum, Hor. S. 1, 4, 81: libertino patre natum, id. ib. 1, 6, 46: cuncta robiginosis dentibus, Mart. 5, 28, 7; cf.: dentem dente, i. e. to [[speak]] [[ill]] of [[each]] [[other]], id. 13, 2, 6: murmura [[secum]] et rabiosa silentia rodunt, i. e. to [[mutter]] to one's [[self]], Pers. 3, 81.
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