Lacer, veteribus dicebatur qui auribus curtatus erat. Festus. He that had his eates pulled off. Artus laceri.Ouid. Cornu lacerum. Ouid.Froken.Aures laceræ scabie. Claud. Laceri clines. Stat.Comæ laceræ. Lucan. Currus lacet. Ouid.Funus lacerum, Id est, dilaniatum cadauer.Virg.Laceras gentilitates colligere.Plin. iunior. To gather togither nations dispersed here aud there:Morsu lacero diuellero artus.Ouid.Nauis lacera.Ouid.A broken ship.Puppes laceræ, Ouid. Regni laceri corpus. Claud. Tabulæ laceræ.Ouid.Broken.
Lacio, cis, lacui, & lexi, lacere. Fest. To bring into a finare: to winde one in, to deceiue him.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
lăcer (lăcĕrus quoted by Prisc. 901 P.), ĕra, ĕrum, adj. [root lak-, to tear; Gr. lakero/s, torn; la/kkos, lake; Lat. lacero, lacus, lacuna, lāma; Irish, loch; Engl. lake], mangled, lacerated, torn to pieces. I.Lit. (not in Cic. or Cæs.): homo, Lucr. 3, 403: corpus, Liv. 1, 28; Plin. 2, 63, 63, 156: corpus verberibus, Just. 21, 4, 7: cui quod membrum lacerum laesumve est, Masur. Sab. ap. Gell. 4, 2, 15: Deiphobum lacerum crudeliter ora,
mutilated
, Verg. A. 6, 495; so, artus avolsaque membra et funus lacerum tellus habet, id. ib. 9, 491.—Of the hair: nec modus aut pennis, laceris aut crinibus, ignem spargere, Stat. S. 1, 1, 133; Sil. 6, 560; Claud. Rapt. Pros. 3, 177: vestis, Tac. H. 3, 10: tectorum vestigia lacera et semusta, id. A. 15, 40: puppis, Ov. H. 2, 45: insignia, Stat. Th. 10, 8: lacerae unguibus venae, Sen. Phoen. 162.—B.Trop. (postAug. and very rare): sparsas, atque, ut ita dicam, laceras gentilitates colligere atque conectere,
families rent and scattered
, Plin. Pan. 39, 3.—Poet.: castra,
an army that has lost its general
, Sil. 15, 9: lacerae domus artus componere, Sen. Thyest. 432.— II.Transf., act., rending, lacerating (for lacerans): morsus, Ov. M. 8, 880.
lăcĭo, ĕre, v. a. [v. laqueus], to entice, allure: lacit, in fraudem inducit. Inde est allicere et lacessere; inde lactat, illectat, delectat, oblectat, Paul. ex Fest. p. 117 Müll.; cf.: lacit, decipiendo inducit. Lax etenim fraus est, id. ib. p. 116.