confuto
Κινδυνεύουσι γὰρ ὅσοι τυγχάνουσιν ὀρθῶς ἁπτόμενοι φιλοσοφίας λεληθέναι τοὺς ἄλλους ὅτι οὐδὲν ἄλλο αὐτοὶ ἐπιτηδεύουσιν ἢ ἀποθνῄσκειν τε καὶ τεθνάναι → Actually, the rest of us probably haven't realized that those who manage to pursue philosophy as it should be pursued are practicing nothing else but dying and being dead (Socrates via Plato, Phaedo 64a.5)
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
con-fūto: āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. futo, v. intens. from foveo,
I to check or repress a boiling liquid, to suppress, restrain, check.
I Prop.: cocus magnum ahenum quando fervit, paulā confutat truā, Titin. ap. Non. p. 87, 13 (Com. Rel. v. 128 Rib.); cf. Varr. ib. p. 87, 11.—Hence (far more freq.),
II Trop.
A In gen., to repress, diminish, impede, destroy, put to silence: nostras secundas res, Cato ap. Gell. 7, 3, 14: maximos dolores inventorum suorum memoriā et recordatione, Cic. Tusc. 5, 31 88: audaciam, id. Part. Or. 38, 134.—
B In partic.
1 To put down by words, to put to silence, confute (so class.): sensus judjcum imperiosis comminationibus, Tiro ap. Gell. 7, 3, 13: ego istos, qui nunc me culpant, confutaverim, Plaut. Truc. 2, 3, 28: iratum senem verbis, Ter. Phorm. 3, 1, 13; cf. dictis, id. Heaut. 5, 1, 76.—
2 To refute, confute, disprove, answer conclusively: hunc tactum confutabunt nares? Lucr. 4, 488: argumenta Stoicorum, Cic. Div. 1, 5, 8: opinionis levitatem, id. N. D. 2, 17, 45: ut verba magnifica rebus confutaret, Liv. 37, 10, 2: suo sibi argumento confutatus est, Gell. 5, 10, 16.—
3 In late Lat., to convict, Cod. Th. 11, 8, 1.—With inf.: nocuisse quibusdam, Amm. 26, 3, 1: tot suscepisse labores et pericula, id. 17, 9, 5.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
(1) cōnfūtō,¹³ āvī, ātum, āre, tr.,
1 arrêter le bouillonnement d’un liquide : Titin. 128
2 arrêter, abattre : quod nostras secundas res confutet Cat. d. Gell. 7, 3, 14, chose de nature à arrêter notre prospérité ; maximos dolores recordatione confutat Cic. Tusc. 5, 88, il réduit les plus vives douleurs en faisant appel au souvenir
