corruptela
τί δ' ἢν ῥαφανιδωθῇ πιθόμενός σοι τέφρᾳ τε τιλθῇ, ἕξει τινὰ γνώμην λέγειν τὸ μὴ εὐρύπρωκτος εἶναι; → What if he should have a radish shoved up his ass because he trusted you and then have hot ashes rip off his hair? What argument will he be able to offer to prevent himself from having a gaping-anus | but suppose he trusts in your advice and gets a radish rammed right up his arse, and his pubic hairs are burned with red-hot cinders. Will he have some reasoned argument to demonstrate he's not a loose-arsed bugger
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
corruptēla: (conr-), ante-class. also corrumptēla, ae, f. corrumpo,
I that which corrupts, a corrupting, corruption, seduction, bribery, etc.
I Prop. (freq. and class. in <number opt="n">sing.</number> and <number opt="n">plur.</number>): mores hac (sc. cantūs) dulcedine corruptelaque depravati, Cic. Leg. 2, 15, 38: collapsus est hic in corruptelam suam, Plaut. Truc. 3, 2, 3: quem (adulescentulum) corruptelarum illecebris irretisses, Cic. Cat. 1, 6, 13: stupra dico et corruptelas et adulteria, id. Tusc. 4, 35, 75; cf. Suet. Claud. 16: via una corruptelae Bacchanalia erant, Liv. 39, 9, 3: malae consuetudinis (gen. subj.), Cic. Leg. 1, 12, 33: mulierum (gen. obj.), id. Verr. 2, 2, 54, § 134; cf. servi, id. Deiot. 11, 30.—
II Meton. (abstr. pro concreto).
A A corrupter, seducer, misleader: nostrūm liberūm, Ter. Ad. 5, 3, 7: is apud scortum corrumptelast liberis, Plaut. As. 5, 2, 17.—*
B A place of seduction, Front. Aquaed. 76.
