Meaning of caedēs | Babel Free

Definitions

1. the act of cutting or lopping something off
   declension-3
2. the act of striking with the fist, a beating
   declension-3
3. murder, assassination, killing, slaughter, massacre, carnage
   broadly, declension-3
4. the corpses of the slain or murdered
   declension-3, metonymically
5. the blood shed by murder, gore
   declension-3, metonymically

Examples

“Vīvit? Immō vērō etiam in Senātum venit, fit pūblicī cōnsiliī particeps, notat et dēsignat oculīs ad caedem ūnum quemque nostrum.”

He lives? Indeed, he even comes into the Senate, becomes a participant in the public deliberations, and with his eyes he recognizes and designates each one of us for slaughter.

““… miserī post fāta Sychaeī / coniugis et sparsōs frāternā caede penātīs, ….” “… ever since the wretched fate of Sychaeus, [my late] husband, [when] our hearth-gods were blood-stained by a fraternal murder, ….” (Dido’s brother Pygmalion had murdered her husband Sychaeus, a grievous act which dishonored her familial penates.)”

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