Viola, víolæ, pen. cor. Pli. A violet.Viola alba. Plin. Idem quod Leucoia. Flammea. Pli. Luteæ. Pli. Fuscæ violæ. Claud. Mollis viola. Vir. Nigræ violæ. Vir. The purple violet.Pallentes violas carpere.Virg.Purpurea viola, Idem. Plin. Tinctus viola pallor amantium. Horat. The wannesse of louers in colout like a violet.Tondere violas manu. Propert. To gather violets.
Violo, violas, pe. co. violâre. To violate: to corrupt: to dessle: to desloure: to breake as a man doth a lawe.Violare amicitiam. Ci. To doe against friendship.Amores alicuius violare. Tibul. Aras cælicolûm violauit mea dextra. Sil. Aurum cibis violare. Sta. To make vessel of gold foule with putting meate in them.Bello violari. Ci. Corpus vulnere violare.Virg.To wounde.Cubile alicuius violare. Catul. To committe agulterie with ones wife.Dignitatem violare. Ci. To do against ones honour.Ebur ostro violare. Vir. To mire susrie with purple.Existimationem alicuius violare. Ci. To diminish ones estimation or reputation.Apud exteras nationes imperij nostri famam tuam probis violasti.Cic.Thou hast distained the fame of our empyre in fortaine countries, by thy naughtie doings.Fidem violare.Ouid.To breake promise.Fidem coniugij violare. Plin. Not to be faithful and true in wedlecke: to dreake wedlocke.Fœdus violare.Liu.To dreake aliauce.Fœdera communia pacis violare. Lucret. Hoipites violare. Cæs. To misuse, or do insurie to strangers, comming into our countrey.Iura violare. Ci. Loca religiosa violare. Ci. Numina verbo violare. Tibul. To speake ill of the Gods.Parentes violare.Cic.To misuse his parents: to do vnnaturally to his parents.Puellam violare. Tibul. To defloure.Rempublicam violare. Ci. To hurt the common weale.Sacra violare. Ci. To distaine.Nubes violant serenam speciem mundi. Lucr. The cloudes onercast the faire weather.Venas violare. Cel. To hurt the veines.Suspicione violara virtus. Li. An honest man vniustly susperted.Siluam violare securi.Ouid.To cut downr trees: to fel.Verbo ius legationis violare. Ci. In words to misuse an amdassaÛour in some matter touching his message.Virginitatem violare. Ci. Vitam patris violare. Ci. Voce aliquem violare. Ci. To raile or speake outragiouslye against one.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
vĭŏla, ae, f.dim. [Gr. i)/on], the violet, the stock-gillyflower.I.Lit., Plin. 21, 6, 14, 27; 21, 11, 38, 64; Verg. E. 2, 47; 10, 39. —Collect.: an tu me in violā putabas aut in rosā dicere?Cic. Tusc. 5, 26, 73 al.— II.A violet color, violet, Hor. C. 3, 10, 14; id. Ep. 2, 1, 207; Plin. 34, 12, 32, 124; 37, 9, 40, 121.
vĭŏlo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [vis], to treat with violence (corporeally, and, more freq., mentally), to injure, dishonor, outrage, violate (cf.: laedo, polluo, contamino). I.Lit. with persons as objects: hospites violare fas non putant,
to injure
,
do violence to
, Caes. B. G. 6, 23 fin.: aliquem, id. B. C. 3, 98: patriam prodere, parentes violare, Cic. Fin. 3, 9, 32.—Esp.: virginem, Auct. ap. Varr. L. L. 6, 80 Müll.; Tib. 1, 6, 51; cf. Cic. Fam. 9, 22, 1 fin.: sacrum vulnere corpus, Verg. A. 11, 591; cf.: Getico peream violatus ab arcu, Ov. P. 3, 5, 45.—II.Transf.A. With places as objects, to invade, violate, profane: fines eorum se violaturum negavit, Caes. B. G. 6, 32: loca religiosa et lucos, Cic. Rab. Perd. 2, 7: Iliacos agros ferro, Verg. A. 11, 255: Cereale nemus securi, Ov. M. 8, 741: silva vetus nullāque diu violata securi, id. F. 4, 649.—B. With the senses as objects, to outrage, shock: oculos nostros (tua epistola), Ov. H. 17, 1; cf.: aures meas obsceno sermone, Petr. 85.—C. With abstract objects, to violate, outrage, break, injure, etc.: officium, Cic. Rosc. Am. 38, 109: jus, id. Leg. 2, 9, 22: religionem, id. Verr. 2, 5, 72, 186: virginitatem alicujus, id. N. D. 3, 23, 59: vitam patris, id. Par. 3, 25: inducias per scelus,
to break
, Caes. B. C. 2, 15: foedera, Liv. 28, 44, 7; Tib. 1, 9, 2: amicitiam, Cic. Phil. 2, 1, 3: existimationem absentis, id. Quint. 23, 73; cf.: nominis nostri famam tuis probris, id. Verr. 2, 1, 32, 82: dignitatem alicujus in aliquā re, id. Fam. 1, 6, 2; cf.: injuriae sunt, quae aut pulsatione corpus aut convicio aures aut aliquā turpitudine vitam cujuspiam violant, Auct. Her. 4, 25, 35.—III.Trop. (rare and poet.): Indum sanguineo ostro ebur, i. e.
to dye of a blood-red
, Verg. A. 12, 67 (an imitation of the Homeric e)le/fanta foi/niki mih/nh, Il. 4, 141).