verb transitive

suc-cīdo

2nd PP suc-cīdere · 3rd PP succīdi · 4th PP succīsum · conj. 3rd

to cut off; away below; cut from below poetic •••

to cut off or away below, cut from below, to cut through, cut off, cut down, fell (rare but class.; not in Cic.): is pernas succidit iniquā superbiā Poeni, Enn. ap. Fest. pp. 304 and 305 Müll. (Ann. v. 279 Vahl.); cf.: vivos Succisis feminibus poplitibusque invenerunt, Liv. 22, 51, 7: poplitem, Verg. A. 10, 700: crura equis (with suffodere ilia), Liv. 42, 59, 3: nervos equorum, id. 44, 28, 14: arbores, Caes. B. G. 5, 9; Liv. 23, 24; Col. 2, 2, 11; 11, 2, 11; Plin. 16, 12, 23, § 58 al.: asseres, Liv. 44, 5, 6: florem aratro, Verg.A.9,435: frumentis succisis, cut down, mown down, Caes. B. G. 4, 38; 4, 19: Cererem, Verg. G. 1, 297: (herbas) curvamine falcis aënae, Ov. M. 7, 227: segetem, Sil. 15, 536 al.: cf.: ita gregem metite imbellem ac succidite ferro, mow down, Sil. 14, 134: serpens succisa manu Herculeā, Sen. Med. 702.—Poet.: succisa libido, emasculated, made powerless, Claud. in Eutr. 1, 190.

Perseus ID: n46267 Key: succido2