mutilus: Difference between revisions

|lshtext=<b>mŭtĭlus</b>: a, um, adj. μιτυλος or [[μύτιλος]]>,<br /><b>I</b> [[maimed]], [[mutilated]] ([[class]].; syn.: [[truncus]], [[curtus]], [[mancus]]).<br /><b>I</b> Lit. So of those [[who]] [[cut]] [[off]] a [[thumb]] to [[escape]] [[military]] [[service]], Cod. Th. 7, 13, 10: [[grabatulus]] uno pede [[mutilus]], App. M. 1, p. 107, 19: naves (al. mutilatae), Liv. 37, 24: litterae, Gell. 17, 9, 12. —Of [[horned]] animals [[which]] [[have]] [[lost]] one or [[both]] horns: bos, Varr. L. L. 9, § 33 Müll.: [[alces]] mutilae sunt cornibus, [[without]] horns, Caes. B. G. 6, 26: [[capella]], Col. 7, 6.—Hence [[jestingly]], transf.: sic [[mutilus]] (i. e. exsecto [[cornu]]) minitaris? Hor. S. 1, 5, 60.—<br /><b>II</b> Trop.: mutila et [[quasi]] decurtata (in oratione) sentire, Cic. Or. 53, 178: mutila quaedam et [[hiantia]] loqui, [[too]] [[briefly]], id. ib. 9, 32.