contrunco
διὸ δὴ πᾶς ἀνὴρ σπουδαῖος τῶν ὄντων σπουδαίων πέρι πολλοῦ δεῖ μὴ γράψας ποτὲ ἐν ἀνθρώποις εἰς φθόνον καὶ ἀπορίαν καταβαλεῖ → And this is the reason why every serious man in dealing with really serious subjects carefully avoids writing, lest thereby he may possibly cast them as a prey to the envy and stupidity of the public | Therefore every man of worth, when dealing with matters of worth, will be far from exposing them to ill feeling and misunderstanding among men by committing them to writing
Latin > English
contrunco contruncare, contruncavi, contruncatus V TRANS :: hack/cut down/to pieces; gobble up, dispatch (food)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
con-trunco: āvi, ātum, 1,
I v. a., to cut down or to pieces (ante- and post-class. and very rare): filios, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 9, 51; cf.: inermes et obsistentes, Lampr. Alex. Sev. 61.—Facete: cibum, Plaut. Stich. 4, 1, 48: offulam grandiorem, App. M. 1, p. 103, 35: moles palearum, id. ib. 9, p. 222, 37.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
contruncō,¹⁶ āvī, ātum, āre, tr., couper la tête à plusieurs à la fois : Pl. Bacch. 975 || [fig.] rogner : Pl. St. 554.
Latin > German (Georges)
con-trunco, āvī, ātum, āre, zusammenhauen, zerhauen, Plaut. u. Spät.: c. cibum, aufzehren, Plaut.
