To breake: to discourage: to vanquish: to maister: to came and keepe vnder. Frangere aulas in caput alcerius. Plautus. To breake earthen pottes vpon ones head. Fregit brachium. Cic. He hath broke his arme. Frangere ceruices alicui. Cic. To breake ones necke. Comam in gradus frangere. Quint. To platte his haire in lockes standing in an order. Fregit coxam. Plin. iun. He hard broke his hippe boue. Gleba frangenda versis bidentibus. Virg. The cloddes must be broken. Frangere in micas. Plin. To breake into crummes. Frangere molis. Plin. To grinde. Fregit nauem. Terent. He had a shipwracke. Patinam frangere. Hor. Ad saxum aliquid frangere. Virg. To breake against. Euri frangunt syluas. Vir. The winde butsteth downe trees. Frangere, ad incorporea transfertur. To discourage: to vanquish, &c. vt, Frangere animum alicuius. Plau. To discourage: to abate ones stomacke. Frangere & abijcere aliquem. Cic. To make one relent and giue ouer his doings. Frangere & comminuere aliquem. Cicero. To discourage and ouercome. Animum pietas, maternáque nomina frangunt. Ouid. Naturall loue & the name of a mother ouercome hit stomacke. Frangere audaciam hostis. Liu. To represse. Contundere & frangere latronis audaciam. Cic. To represse and maister. Frangere authoritatem veteris disciplinæ. Cic. To breake or destroy the olde rule or auncient custome. Bella frangere. Ouid. Bellum aliquorum prælijs frangere & domare. Cic. Commoda alicuius frangere. Catull. To destroye ones commodities. Frangere consilia alicuius. Ci. To stop or stay ones purposes: to let one of that he goeth about. Contentiones frangere. Cic. To represse. Dolor frangit corda fortia. Tibull. Sorrowe subdueth or discourageth stout stomackes. Copiditates frangere. Cic. To maister wanton appetites. Diem morantem mero frangere. Horat. To passe away the day in drincking. Frangere dignitatem suam. Cic. To appaire and diminishe. Doli frangentur inanes. Virgil. Shall be ouercome or made voide. Frangere fidem. Cic. To breake his othe or promise. Fluctus. Plin. iun. Fœdus. Cic. To breake league or couenaunt. Furorem & petulantiam alicuius. Cic. Gemitu supplice frangere aliquem. Stat. To ouercome or appease with pitiful complaint. Hominem frangere. Cic. To ouercome: to make him condiscend to our opinion: to breake his heart. Imperium. Horat. To onerthrowe ones lyrannie or cruel gouernement. Impetus aduenientes. Cic. Mala ingenium fregêre meum. Ouid. Aduersitie hath bro ken and ouercome my nature. Frangere aliquem ingenio & industria. Cic. The witte and diligence to ouercome ones stomack that was set against him. Leges alicuius frangere. Lentulus Ciceroni. To breake. Libidines alicuius. Cic. To represse and maister. Mandata. Hor. To transgresse ones commaundements. Morbum frangere & vincere. Pli. iun. To maister and ouercome the disease. Nationes frangere & domare. Cic. To ouercome and bring in subiection. Opes frangere inimicorum. Liu. To represie and ouercome the power of. Opes frangere & infirmare. Cic. Patientia frangere aliquem. Cic. To ouercome with. Vinum sublimia pectora fregit. Ouid. Wine pulled downe loftie heartes. Pœnas leuiter frangere. Lucre. To diminish or abate the punishment a little. Se laboribus frangere. Cic. To weaken himselfe with labor. Se calor frangit. Cicer. The heate alayeth it selfe, or waxeth lesse. Sententiam alicuius frangere. Ci. To confute ones opinion, and shew it to be of no force. Fractum studium scribendi. Cecinna ad Ciceronem. Study of writing discouraged. Ventum frangere. Plin. iun. To breake a storme. Debilitare & frangere vim aliquam. Cic. Superare & frangere furiosam vim alicuius. Cic. Frangere vires. Cic. To confound ones power. Vires & robur frangit minutatim. Lucret. Frangi. Cic. Not to abide patiently sorrow and tronble: to be ouercome with aduersitie. Cic. Turpe est viro forti dolere, frangi, succumbere, &c. Mare æstu frangitur. Lucret. The sea is tossed with ebbing and flowing. Frangi dolore. Cice. To bee in extreame sorrow, or almoste dead for forrowe. Frangi metu. Cic. To be almost dead for feare. Minis nullis frangitur. Stat. He is ouercome with, &c. Molestia animos frangi & debilirari non oportet. Cic. Frangi pudore. Cice. To be exceedingly ashamed and out of countenaunce.

I. Lit.: hastas frangit quatitque, Enn. ap. Macr. S. 6, 3 (Ann. v. 435 ed. Vahl.); cf.: aes sonit, franguntur hastae, id. Fragm. ap. Non. 504, 33 (Trag. v. 213 ed. Vahl.): fraxinus frangitur atque abies consternitur alta, is broken, felled, id. ap. Macr. S. 6, 2 (Ann. v. 195 ed. Vahl.): simulacra, Lucr. 6, 419: milvo est quoddam bellum quasi naturale cum corvo: ergo alter alterius ubicumque nactus est ova, frangit, Cic. N. D. 2, 49, 125: anulus aureus fractus et comminatus est, id. Verr. 2, 4, 25, 56: compluribus navibus fractis, dashed to pieces, Caes. B. G. 4, 29, 3: naves, Hor. A. P. 20: navem is fregit apud Andrum insulam, Ter. And. 1, 3, 17; cf. Auct. Her. 4, 44, 57: domus fracta conjectu lapidum, Cic. Att. 4, 3, 2: janua frangatur, latret canis, Hor. S. 1, 2, 128: patinam, id. ib. 2, 8, 72: lagenam, id. ib. 81: crystallina, Mart. 14, 111: aulas in caput, Plaut. Capt. 1, 1, 21: corpora ad saxum, Verg. A. 3, 625: vindices rerum capitalium laqueo gulam fregere, broke his neck, strangled him, Sall. C. 55, 5: cervices civium Romanorum in carcere, Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 57, 147; id. Vatin. 11, 26: senile guttur parentis impiā manu, Hor. Epod. 3, 2: cerebrum, Verg. A. 5, 413: brachium, Cic. de Or. 2, 62, 253; cf. coxam, Plin. Ep. 2, 1, 5: crus, Hor. Ep. 1, 17, 59: crura, Cic. Phil. 13, 12, 27; Suet. Aug. 67; id. Tib. 44; Vulg. Johan. 19, 31: cornu in arbore, Ov. F. 5, 121: non ego te, tigris ut aspera Gaetulusve leo, frangere persequor, to tear in pieces, Hor. C. 1, 23, 10; cf.: indomitos ut cum Massyla per arva Armenti reges magno leo fregit hiatu, etc., Stat. Th. 11, 28; Val. Fl. 2, 458; Plin. 8, 40, 61, 150: nubes in montem actae non franguntur, sed circumfunduntur, Sen. Q. N. 2, 28, 2.—

B. Transf., in gen., to break up small, to grind, bruise, crush (freq. since the Aug. per.): glebam bidentibus, Verg. G. 2, 400; glebas, id. ib. 3, 161: fruges robore saxi, Lucr. 1, 882: farra saxo, Val. Fl. 2, 448: hordeum molis, Plin. 18, 7, 14, 72: granum dentibus, id. 18, 24, 54, 196: fabam, id. 19, 3, 15, 40: glandem (sues), Verg. G. 2, 72: testes homini, Plin. 11, 49, 110, 263: toros, to press, throw one's self upon, Mart. 2, 59, 3; 4, 8, 6: comam in gradus, to twist, braid, Quint. 1, 6, 44: mare montis ad ejus Radices frangit fluctus, breaks, Lucr. 6, 695; cf.: quam (fortunam) existimo levem et imbecillam ab animo firmo et gravi tamquam fluctum a saxo frangi oportere, Cic. Fam. 9, 16, 6: fluctus (scopulus), Luc. 6, 266: undam, Ov. F. 4, 282: aquas, Quint. 9, 4, 7: amnem nando, Luc. 8, 374; cf. Sil. 3, 457; 8, 555: iter, i. e. turn off from it, Stat. Th. 12, 232.

II. Trop., to break down, subdue, weaken, diminish, violate; to soften, move, touch: quem (Viriathum) C. Laelius praetor ita fregit et comminuit ferocitatemque ejus ita repressit, ut, etc., broke down, subdued, Cic. Off. 2, 11 fin.; cf.: fractam illam et debilitatam vim suam, etc., id. Fam. 1, 9, 2: quem series immensa laborum fregerit, Ov. H. 9, 6: nationes frangere domareque, Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 33: proeliis calamitatibusque fracti, Caes. B. G. 1, 31, 7: victi sumus igitur, aut, si vinci dignitas non potest, fracti certe et abjecti, Cic. Fam. 4, 7, 2: te ut ulla res frangat? would break, shake thy resolution, id. Cat. 1, 9, 22; cf.: frangi metu, cupiditate, id. Off. 1, 20, 68: fractus ac debilitatus metu, id. de Or. 1, 26, 121: flecti animo atque frangi, id. Sull. 6, 18: frangi animo, id. Phil. 2, 15, 37: dolore, id. Fin. 2, 29, 95: misericordiā, id. Att. 7, 12, 3: pudore, id. Tusc. 2, 21, 48 et simil.; cf. also: aliquem auctoritate, id. ib. 1, 21 fin.: aliquem patientiā, id. Brut. 25, 95: quae (vis) summas frangit infirmatque opes, Poët. ap. Cic. Rab. Post. 10, 28: debilitatur ac frangitur eloquentia, Tac. Dial. 39: mollis illa educatio, quam indulgentiam vocamus, nervos omnes et mentis et corporis frangit, Quint. 1, 2, 6: frangitur vox, id. 11, 3, 20; cf. id. 12, 11, 2: vox Auditur fractos sonitus imitata tubarum, Verg. G. 4, 72: et illa (littera), quae est sexta nostrarum (i. e. F) quoties aliquam consonantem frangit, ut in hoc ipso frangit, multo fit horridior, i. e. weakens, Quint. 12, 10, 29 Spald. (v. the passage in its connection); cf. id. 1, 4, 11: primum divisit ineleganter: duo enim genera quae erant, fecit tria: hoc est non dividere, sed frangere, Cic. Fin. 2, 9, 26; cf.: frangas citius quam corrigas, quae in pravum induruerunt, Quint. 1, 3, 12: bellum proeliis frangere, Cic. Prov. Cons. 13, 32: dignitatem, id. Fam. 9, 16, 6: hunc (pedum dolorem) abstinentiā, sanctitate vicit et fregit, Plin. Ep. 1, 12, 5: ut equorum cursum delicati minutis passibus frangunt, Quint. 9, 4, 113: animos frangi et debilitari molestiā, Cic. Q. Fr. 1, 1, 1, 2: ingenium (mala), Ov. Tr. 3, 14, 33: sublimia pectora (Venus et vinum), id. F. 1, 301: ego unus contudi et fregi exsultantis praedonis audaciam, Cic. Phil. 13, 13 fin.; cf. id. Fragm. ap. Non. 301, 8 (id. Rep. 3, 36 ed. Mos.): furorem et petulantiam alicujus, id. Pis. 14, 31: libidines, id. Leg. 3, 13, 31: odium iramque (risus), Quint. 6, 3, 9: impetum cogitationis (membranae), id. 10, 3, 31: consilium alicujus, Cic. Fam. 4, 4, 4; cf.: sententiam alicujus, id. ib. 1, 4, 1: foedus, id. Pis. 12, 28; id. Scaur. 42: fidem, id. Rosc. Com. 6, 16: jura pudicitiae, Prop. 4 (5), 5, 28: mandata, Hor. Ep. 1, 13, 19: fas, Grat. Cyneg. 451: morantem diem mero (= breviorem reddere), to shorten, Hor. C. 2, 7, 6: vina, i. e. to weaken, dilute, Mart. 14, 103; Plin. 14, 22, 28, 138: cum frangerem jam ipse me cogeremque illa ferre toleranter, Cic. Fam. 4, 6, 2: nec animus tantis se laboribus frangeret, neque, etc., id. Arch. 11, 29: ante quam calores aut frigora se fregerunt, diminished, abated, Varr. R. R. 2, 2, 18; cf.: Scaevola paulum quiescet, dum se calor frangat, Cic. de Or. 1, 62, 265: fracti aestus et nondum orta frigora, Cels. 7, 7, 4 fin.; cf.: fluctus se frangit, Sen. Med. 392: glacies se frangit, id. Q. N. 4, 5, 4.—Hence, fractus, a, um, P. a., weakened, weak, feeble, faint: jamque adeo fracta est aetas effetaque tellus Vix animalia parva creat, Lucr. 2, 1151: quod me audis fractiorem esse animo, i. e. more disheartened, less courageous, Cic. Att. 11, 12, 4; cf.: spes amplificandae fortunae fractior, id. Lael. 16, 59: in compositione fractus, powerless, feeble, Quint. 12, 10, 12; cf.: quid est tam fractum, tam minutum, tam in ipsa concinnitate puerile? Cic. Brut. 83, 287; and: corruptum et omnibus vitiis fractum dicendi genus, Quint. 10, 1, 125: corrupta oratio maxime comprehensione obscura, compositione fracta consistit, id. 8, 3, 57: effeminata et fracta impudicis modis (musice), id. 1, 10, 31.