collido
ἠργάζετο τῷ σώματι μισθαρνοῦσα τοῖς βουλομένοις αὐτῇ πλησιάζειν → she lived as a prostitute letting out her person for hire to those who wished to enjoy her, she worked with her body by hiring herself out to anyone who wanted to have sex with her
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
col-līdo: (conl-), līsi, līsum, 3, v. a. laedo,
I to clash, strike, dash, beat, or press together, etc. (rare; mostly post-Aug.; most freq. in Quint.).
I Prop.: umor ita mollis est, ut facile premi collidique possit, Cic. N. D. 3, 12, 31; Lucr. 1, 532: collidere manus, to clap, Quint. 2, 12, 10: dentes colliduntur, chatter, Sen. Ep. 11, 2: anulus ut fiat, primo colliditur aurum, Ov. A. A. 3, 221: mare inter se navigia collidit, Curt. 4, 3, 17; 9, 9, 16: amnis uterque colliditur, id. 8, 9, 8: silvam sibi, Manil. 1, 855: argentum factum, si fractum vel collisum est, etc., bruised, Dig. 34, 2, 28; cf. ib. 50, 16, 14; freq. in part. perf., battered, beaten, bruised: argentea vasa collisa, Cic. Phil. 2, 29, 73: corpus, Cels. 5, 26, 23: nasus, Sen. Ira, 3, 22, 4: os, Gai Inst. 3, 223; and absol.: collisa, bruised limbs, Plin. 29, 2, 9, § 33; cf. Gai Inst. 3, 217. —
II Trop., to bring into collision or into hostile contact, to set at variance; in pass., to become hostile, to be at variance, contend (not ante-Aug.): ambitiosa pios collidit gloria fratres, Stat. Th. 6, 435; Sil. 11, 45: Graecia barbariae lento collisa duello, * Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 7: collisa inter se duo rei publicae capita, Vell. 2, 52, 3: si binae (consonantes) collidantur, come in contact, Quint. 9, 4, 37: colliduntur aut pares (leges) inter se aut secum ipsae, conflict with one another, id. 7, 7, 2 sq.; so id. 7, 2, 11; 5, 7, 32; cf. id. 7, 10, 17.
