Attero, árteris, pen. cor. attríui, attrîtum, pen. prod. attérere. To rubbe against a thing.Anguillæ atterunt se scopulis. Plin. Rubbe them selues.Attrita inter se ligna. Plin. Rubbed one against an other. Atterere. Colum. To weareito wast or consume: to breake in peeces.Atterere alueum. Plin. To weare the chauel of the riuer, and make it deeper.Attrita toga Martial.A threede bare gowne.Atterere herbas.To breake or fret as they grow.Attritus vomer.Virg.Worne.Attrita ansa.Virg.Worne.Attritus lapillus.Ouid.A stone worne, and made smoothe with continuance. Aiterere aures alicui, per translationem.Plaut.To burst ones eares with babling.Attrita bellis Aethiopia. Plin. Wasted, or wel neare destroied with warre.Atterere famam alicuius.Salust.To waste his good name: to bring him in infamie.
Attritus, Vide ATTERO.
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at-tĕro (adt-, Dietsch), trīvi, trītum, 3, v. a. (perf. inf. atteruisse, Tib. 1, 4, 48; cf. Vell. Long. p. 2234 P.), to rub one thing against another; hence, in gen., to rub away, wear out or diminish by rubbing, to waste, wear away, weaken, impair, exhaust.I.Lit. (most freq. after the Aug. per.; in Cic. only once as P. a.;v. infra): insons Cerberus leniter atterens caudam, rubbing against or upon (sc. Herculi), Hor. C. 2, 19, 30: asinus spinetis se scabendi causā atterens, Plin. 10, 74, 95, 204: aures, Plaut. Pers. 4, 9, 11 (cf. antestor): bucula surgentes atterat herbas,
tramples upon
, Verg. G. 4, 12: opere insuetas atteruisse manus, Tib. 1, 4, 48; so Prop. 5, 3, 24, and Plin. 2, 63, 63, 158; so, dentes usu atteruntur, id. 7, 16, 15, 70: attrivit sedentis pedem, Vulg. Num. 22, 25: vestem, Dig. 23, 3, 10; Col. 11, 2, 16; Cels. praef.: vestimenta, Vulg. Deut. 29, 5; ib. Isa. 51, 6.—Poet., of sand worn by the water flowing over it: attritas versabat rivus harenas, Ov. M. 2, 456.—II.Trop., to destroy, waste, weaken, impair: postquam utrimque legiones item classes saepe fusae fugataeque et alteri alteros aliquantum adtriverant, Sall. J. 79, 4: magna pars (exercitūs) temeritate ducum adtrita est, id. ib. 85, 46: Italiae opes bello, id. ib. 5, 4; so Tac. H. 1, 10; 1, 89; 2, 56; Curt. 4, 6 fin.; cf. Sil. 2, 392 Drak.: nec publicanus atterit (Germanos),
exhausts
,
drains
, Tac. G. 29: famam atque pudorem, Sall. C. 16, 2: et vincere inglorium et atteri sordidum arbitrabatur,
and to suffer injury in his dignity
, Tac. Agr. 9 Rupert.: eo tempore, quo praecipue alenda ingenia atque indulgentiā quādam enutrienda sunt, asperiorum tractatu rerum atteruntur,
are enfeebled
, Quint. 8, prooem. 4: filii ejus atterentur egestate, Vulg. Job, 20, 10: Nec res atteritur longo sufflamine litis, Juv. 16, 50.— Hence, attrītus, a, um, P. a., rubbed off, worn off or away, wasted.A.Lit.1. In gen.: ut rictum ejus (simulacri) ac mentum paulo sit attritius, Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43: ansa, Verg. E. 6, 17: vomer,
worn bright
, id. G. 1, 46; cf. Juv. 8, 16 Rupert.: caelaturae, Plin. 33, 12, 55, 157; Petr. 109, 9.—2. In medicine, attritae partes or subst. attrita, ōrum, n. (sc. membra), bruised, excoriated parts of the body: medetur et attritis partibus sive oleo etc., Plin. 24, 7, 28, 43: attritis medetur cinis muris silvatici etc., id. 30, 8, 22, 70.—B.Trop.: attrita frons, a shameless, impudent face (lit. a smooth face, to which shame no longer clings; cf. perfrico), Juv. 13, 242 Rupert.; so, domus Israël attritā fronte, Vulg. Ezech. 3, 7.—Sup. and adv. not used.