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|lshtext=<b>sordes</b>: is (abl. sordi, Lucr. 6, 1271; usu. sorde), f. [[sordeo]],<br /><b>I</b> [[dirt]], [[filth]], [[uncleanness]], [[squalor]] ([[class]].; esp. freq. in a trop. [[sense]], and in plur.; syn.: [[situs]], [[squalor]], [[caenum]], [[illuvies]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Plur.: pleni sordium, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 104 sq.: in sordibus aurium inhaerescere, Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144: sint [[sine]] sordibus ungues, Ov. A. A. 1, 519: caret obsoleti Sordibus tecti, Hor. C. 2, 10, 7; Plin. 36, 26, 65, § 191.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sing.: [[etiam]] in [[medio]] [[oculo]] [[paulum]] sordi'st, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 102: auriculae collectā sorde dolentes, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 53: ([[pellis]]) Ulceribus tetris [[prope]] jam sordique sepultā, Lucr. 6, 1271.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Transf., plur., a [[mourning]] [[garment]] ([[because]] usu. [[soiled]] or [[dirty]]); and [[hence]], [[mourning]] in gen. (syn. [[squalor]]): jacere in lacrimis et sordibus, Cic. Fam. 14, 2, 2; cf.: in sordibus, lamentis, luctuque jacuisti, id. Pis. 36, 89: [[mater]] squalore hujus et sordibus laetatur, id. Clu. 6, 18; 67, 192; id. Mur. 40, 86: [[sordes]] lugubres [[vobis]] erant jucundae, id. Dom. 23, 59; Liv. 6, 16 fin.; Quint. 6, 1, 33; Suet. Vit. 8: suscipere [[sordes]], Tac. A. 4, 52; id. Or. 12; Val. Max. 7, 8, 7.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop., [[lowness]] or [[meanness]] of [[rank]], a [[low]] [[condition]]; [[meanness]], [[baseness]] of behavior or [[disposition]] (syn. [[illiberalitas]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen.: [[sordes]] fortunae et vitae, Cic. Brut. 62, 224: [[obscuritas]] et [[sordes]] tuae, id. Vatin. 5, 11; id. Sest. 28, 60: ut [[quisque]] sordidissimus videbitur, ita libentissime severitate judicandi [[sordes]] suas eluet, id. Phil. 1, 8, 20: nulla [[nota]], [[nullus]] [[color]], nullae [[sordes]] videbantur his sententiis allini posse, id. Verr. 1, 6, 17: in infamiā relinqui ac sordibus, id. Att. 1, 16, 2; Liv. 4, 56: [[sordes]] illae verborum, [[low]], [[vulgar]] expressions, Tac. Or. 21: [[propter]] maternas [[sordes]], [[low]] [[origin]], Just. 13, 2, 11: pristinarum sordium [[oblitus]], id. 25, 1, 9; cf. id. 18, 7, 11.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Concr., the [[dregs]] of the [[people]], the [[mob]], [[rabble]] (syn. [[faex]]): [[apud]] sordem urbis et faecem, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 11; so ([[with]] [[caenum]]) Plin. Ep. 7, 29, 3: [[sordes]] et obscuritatem Vitellianarum partium, Tac. H. 1, 84.—Hence, as a [[term]] of [[abuse]]: o [[lutum]], o [[sordes]]! [[low]]-[[minded]] [[creature]], Cic. Pis. 26, 62.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic., [[meanness]], [[stinginess]], [[niggardliness]], [[sordidness]] (cf.: [[parcimonia]], [[avaritia]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(a)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Plur.: ([[populus]] Romanus) non amat profusas epulas, [[sordes]] et inhumanitatem [[multo]] [[minus]], Cic. Mur. 36, 76; so (opp. [[luxuria]]) Plin. Ep. 2, 6, 7: [[damnatus]] sordium, id. ib. 2, 12, 4: incusare alicujus [[sordes]], Quint. 6, 3, 74: [[sordes]] obicere alicui, Hor. S. 1, 6, 68 and 107: [[sepulcrum]] [[sine]] sordibus exstrue, id. ib. 2, 5, 105: cogit minimas ediscere [[sordes]], the meanest tricks, Juv. 14 124; 1, 140.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>(b)</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sing.: nullum hujus in privatis rebus [[factum]] avarum, nullam in re familiari sordem posse proferri, Cic. Fl. 3, 7; so ([[with]] [[avaritia]]) Tac. H. 1, 52; 1, 60: extremae avaritiae et sordis infimae [[infamis]], App. M. 1, p. 112, 2.

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