Significatio vocis foedans | Babel Free

Definitiones

making hideous, befouling, disfiguring, lacerating, spoiling, defiling

declension-3, form-of, one-termination, participle, present

Exempla

“unguibus ōra soror foedāns et pectora pugnīs the [grieving] sister disfiguring her face with her fingernails, and [beating] her breast with her fists (Aeneid line 4.673 repeats at 12.871; cf. 11.86. Note the poetic plurals: ora…pectora. See Arthur Stanley Pease, (1935), Publi Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Liber Quartus, pp. 517-519, for⟳ extensive classical references to similar behaviors.)”

“infelix crinis scindit Iuturna solutos unguibus ora soror foedans”

The unhappy sister Juturna tore the loosened hair, defiling her face with her fingernails.

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