Nudo, nudas, nudâre. Pli. To make naked or bare: to strippe naked: to vnconer: to make voide: to visclose or open.Ab aliquo nudari.Ouid.Aciem nudare, Vide ACIES.Armis nudare iacentem.Ouid.To spoyle him of his armour as he lieth.Nudatur arbor folijs. Pli. The tree is bare without leaues.Tepidos nudauerar artus. Sil Corpus nudare.Cic.To vncouer the body.Nudare gladios.Liu.To draw swordes.Nudare littora, & portus relinquere. Cæsar. To depart and leaue the sea side and hauens naked without men.Montem nudare syluis. Sil. To cuite downe all the woode on the hill.Terga fugæ nudant.Virg.Nudare vada dicitur ventus.Liu.To leaue veary little water in the shalow places of riuers.Viscera nudare.Virg.To flea: to vnconer or take away the skinne from the fiesh.Quæ victores ciuitatibus Siculis aut dederunt, aut reddiderunt, spoliauit, nudauítque omnia.Cic.Nudata caftra. Cæs. The campe left vorde & opÊ without succour.Nudarus defensoribus murus. Cæs. The wall voyde of men to defende it.Præsidio sceleratorum ciuium, perditos magistratus nudare.Cic.To take from wicked magistrates the ayde of naughty citizeus.Pericula alicuius, non modò ciuiÛ præsidio, sed etiam quorundam deprecatione nudare.Cic. Nudare scelus aliquod.Liu.To discouer or disclose some mischienous act.Euoluere & nudare, Cic.To rsueale and disclose.Nudare animos.Liu.Nudarus & proditus.Cic.Vttered and betraied.Facta alicuius nudare.Ouid. Id est, detegere.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
nūdo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [nudus], to make naked or bare; to strip, bare, lay bare, expose to view, uncover (syn.: exuo, detego, revelo). I.Lit.A. In gen.: nudare inter cives corpora, Enn. ap. Cic. Tusc. 4, 33, 70 (Trag. v. 426 Vahl.): hominem nudari ac deligari jubet, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 62, 161: nudatum caput, Verg. A. 12, 312: duros nudantia dentes, Lucr. 5, 1064; Quint. 11, 3, 81: gladios, Liv. 28, 33: telum nudatum vaginā, Nep. Dat. 11, 4: viscera, Verg. A. 1, 211: crura, id. G. 2, 7; Tac. A. 6, 33: si interrupto nudaret gurgite pontum, Tib. 4, 1, 75: nudata cacumina silvae Ostendunt, Ov. M. 1, 345: ubera, id. ib. 10, 391: tertia nudandas acceperat area messes, i. e.
to be threshed out
, id. F. 3, 557.—B. In partic. 1. In milit. lang., to leave uncovered, leave exposed or defenceless, to expose a place to the enemy: latera sua, Liv. 1, 27: murus nudatus defensoribus, Caes. B. G. 2, 6; Liv. 21, 11: collis nudatus hominibus, Caes. B. G. 7, 44: neque sibi nudanda litora existimabant, id. B. C. 3, 15: ne castra nudentur, id. B. G. 7, 70: praesidiis nudatus, Sall. J. 88, 4; Liv. 30, 2, 5: terga fugā nudant, Verg. A. 5, 586. —2. Pregn., to strip, spoil, plunder: spoliavit nudavitque omnia, Cic. Verr. 1, 5, 14: agros nudare populando, Liv. 44, 27: opibus, id. 42, 50: quem praeceps alea nudat, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 21: moveat cornicula risum Furtivis nudata coloribus, id. ib. 1, 3, 19: nec nuder ab illis, Ov. Tr. 1, 6, 7.—II.Trop.A.To lay bare, expose: te evolutum illis integumentis dissimulationis tuae nudatumque perspicio, Cic. de Or. 2, 86, 350: vis ingenii etiamsi hac scientiā juris nudata sit, id. ib. 1, 38, 172.—B.To lay bare, make visible, expose, betray, disclose: defectionem, Liv. 35, 32: nec illi primo statim creati nudare, quid vellent, id. 24, 27: fama equestris pugnae nudavit voluntates hominum, id. 42, 63: ne poena ejus consilia adversus Romanos nudaret, id. 40, 24: animos, id. 33, 21; Hor. S. 2, 5, 47: ingenium res Adversae nudare solent, celare secundae, id. ib. 2, 8, 74: alicui amorem, Tib. 4, 7, 2.—C.To deprive of, strip of: nudata omnibus rebus tribunicia potestas, Caes. B. C. 1, 7: nudatos opere censorio aut sententiā judicum de ambitu condemnatos restituit, those who had been stripped by the censor of their rights and privileges, Suet. Caes. 41 (al. notatos): cum tuo exercitusque tui praesidio nudatam Italiam viderint, Liv. 28, 42.