Cicatrix, pen. prod. cicatrîcis, pen. etiam prod. f. g. serent. A token or scarre of a wounde.Vestigia pugnæ cicatrices.Ouid.Tokens: scarres.Aduersas cicatrices ostendere.Cic.To shewe his scarres or woundes, ouerthwart the breast and face.Corporea cicatrix. Plin. A filling vp with flesh, in steede of a broken bone taken our.Fœda cicatrix. Horat. Marcida cicatrix. Plin. Malèsana cicatrix.Ouid. Numerosa cicatrix. Claud. Rufula cicatrix.Plaut. Sublurida cicatrix. Plaut. Coit cicatrix.Plaut.The wound closeth or draweth to a searre.Contrahere cicatrices. Plin. To make scarres lesse.Declarat cicatrix.Cic.The scarre sheweth.Ducitur cicatrix.Ouid.The wound closeth.Exceptæ aduerso corpore cicatrices.Cicer.Taken with his face toward the enemie.Fallit cicatrix. Plin. Is so litle, that it can fcant be seene.Indere cicatrices in scapulas alicuius. Plau. So to beate that the markes shall appeare in his shoulders.Mederi cicarricibus.Cic.Obducta cicatrix.Cic.The wound growen togither.Recipere cicatricem.Cic. Redijr in vulous cicatrix. Ouid.Refricare cicatricem.Cicer.To rubbe an olde sore almost whole, and make it greene againe.Suscipere cicatrices. Quint. Tendit ad cicatricem vulnus. Cels. Groweth cogither: wareth whole. Cicatrix in arbores quoque cadit.Virg.Non patiuntur cicatricem frondes teneræ. Quint.
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cĭcātrix, īcis, f., a scar, cicatrice (freq. and class.). I. Prop., Ter. Eun. 3, 2, 29; Cic. Phil. 7, 6, 17; Quint. 5, 9, 5; 6, 1, 21; 6, 3, 100; Suet. Aug. 65 al.; Hor. S. 1, 5, 60; id. C. 1, 35, 33; Ov. M. 12, 444; id. R. Am. 623 al.: cicatrices adversae, wounds in front (therefore honorable), Cic. de Or. 2, 28, 124; Sall. H. 1, 55 Dietsch: aversa,
, Liv. 29, 32, 12: emendare, Plin. 20, 13, 51, 142: tollere, id. 24, 6, 14, 23 et saep.; cf. also II.—B.Transf. to plants, a mark of incision, Verg. G. 2, 379; Plin. 16, 12, 23, 60; 17, 24, 37, 235; Quint. 2, 4, 11. —Of the marks of tools on a statue, Plin. 34, 8, 19, 63.— 2. Humorously, of the seam of a patched shoe, Juv. 3, 151.—II.Trop.: refricare obductam jam rei publicae cicatricem,