attondeo
ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware
Latin > English
attondeo attondere, attondi, attonsus V TRANS :: clip (hair close), shear; strip of money, fleece; thrash; prune, trim, crop
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
at-tondĕo: (better than adt-), tondi, tonsum, 2, v. a. (
I perf. redupl. sync. attodisse = attotondisse or attondisse, Verg. Cat. 8, 9: * attondi = attonderi, Veg. Art. Vet. 2, 28, 36), to shave, shear, clip, crop (rare, and mostly poet.; syn.: tondeo, carpo, puto): rusticus Saturni dente relictam Persequitur vitem attondens, pruning, he cuts off the vine around, Verg. G. 2, 407: caput attonsum, Cels. 4, 3; and Vulg. Ezech. 44, 20: comam, ib. Lev. 19, 27; so, ad cutem, Scrib. Comp. 10.—Poet., to gnaw at, nibble: tenera attondent virgulta capellae, Verg. E. 10, 7: attonsa arva, i. e. fed down, Luc. 6, 84: prata, Aus. Mos. 203.—Trop.: consiliis nostris laus est attonsa Laconum, shorn, i. e. diminished, lessened, vet. poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 5, 17, 49 (as transl. of the Gr. Ἡμετέραις βουλαῖς Σπάρτη μὲν ἐκείρατο δόξαν, Plut. 2, p. 1098): sic quoque attondentur, cut off, Vulg. Nahum, 1, 12: attondere aliquem, i. e. to cheat, fleece (cf. admutilo), Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 18; and in a pun: attonsae quidem ambae usque sunt (oves), id. Bacch. 5, 2, 7; 5, 1, 9: metuo, si senex resciverit, Ne ulmos parasitos faciat, quae usque attondeant, rough-hew me, id. Ep. 2, 3, 6 (cf. Horace's fuste dolat, S. 1, 5, 23).
Latin > German (Georges)
at-tondeo (ad-tondeo), tondī, tōnsum, ēre, bescheren, beschneiden, I) eig.: caput, Cels.: caput ad cutem, Scrib.: vitem, Verg.: forficulis caprinos utres, Apul.: alqm strictim, jmd. bis auf die Haut scheren (scherzh. = tüchtig prellen), Ggstz. alqm per pectinem (über den Kamm), Plaut.: alqm usque (v. Ulmenstäben), durchwalken (= tüchtig abprügeln), Plaut. – v. Ziegen, (wie κείρω) befressen, benagen, tenera virgulta, Verg.: attonsa arva, abgeweidet (= kahl, nackt), Lucan. – II) übtr.: consiliis nostris laus est attonsa Laconum, ist geschmälert, Cic. poët. Tusc. 5, 49. – / Im Vulgärlatein nach der 3. Konjug. Futur. attondent, Vulg. Ezech. 44, 20: Futur. Pass. attondentur, Vulg. Nahum 1, 12: Infin. Präs. Pass. attondi, Veget. mul. 2, 28, 36. – Infin. Perf. Akt. attodisse (so!), Verg. cat. 8 (10), 9 R2 mit cod. Brux.
Latin > Chinese
attondeo, es, di, sum, dere. 2. :: 剪髮。修樹。— virgulta 剁枝。— eum doctis dolis 以巧詭計騙其銀。
