Obduco, obdslcis, pe. pro. obduxi, obductum, obdúcere. Plaut.To lay ouer, to couer a thing all ouer: to vncouer or open. To bring against, or auerthwart a place, to bring about.Obducere velum.Plin. iun.To drawe a veile before a thing. Obdoco, pro Induco. Obducere torporem. Plin. To cause a stonying or dulnesse of the member.Obducere rebus tenebras.Cic.To darkÊ, to obscure: to make lesse famous or natoble. Obducere.Cic.To couer ouer.Obducuntur libro aut cortice trunci stirpium, quò sint frigoribus & caloribus tutiores.Cic.The bodies of trees are couered round.Herbæ obducunt fegetem densis sentibus.Virg.Obducere plagam limo. Plin To couer the cut with clay.Crustam obducere Plin.To grow to an hard skinne or crust.Rubiginem obducere. Plin. To waxe rustie, or to make rusty.Tenebræ obduxere oculos. Lucan. Frontem obducere. Quint. To srowne: to lowre: to looke sowerly.Vultum obducere, Idem.Senec.Callum obducere.Cic.To make hard or thicke skinned: prouerbially to cause to suffer with lesse paine.Consuetudo diuturna callum iam obduxit stomacho meo. Ci. Custome a long time hath hardned my stomacke.Obducere callum dolori dicitur labor.Cicer.I about maketh men suffer sorow more easily and with lesse griefe.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
ob-dūco, xi, ctum (inf. perf. sync. obduxe, Arg. ad Plaut. Merc. 7), 3, v. a., to lead or draw before, lead or conduct against or towards, to draw or bring forward or around, draw over (class. and very freq.; syn.: obtendo, obtego). I.Lit.: ad oppidum exercitum, Plaut. Ps. 2, 1, 13: vim Gallicam obduc contra in acie, Att. ap. Non. 224, 13: Curium, Cic. Att. 1, 1, 2: ab utroque latere collis transversam fossam obduxit, drew forward, drew, made, or extended a trench, Caes. B. G. 2, 8: vela, Plin. Ep. 2, 17, 21: vestem, to draw on or over, Tac. A. 4, 70; Curt. 6, 5, 27: seram,
to draw, close, fasten
, Prop. 5, 5, 48: callum,
to draw over
, Cic. Fam. 9, 2, 3.—B.Transf.1.To cover by drawing over; to cover over, overspread, surround, envelop: trunci obducuntur libro, aut cortice, Cic. N. D. 2, 47, 120: operimento, id. Leg. 2, 22, 56; Verg. E. 1, 49: vultus, of the sun, Ov. M. 2, 330: caput, Luc. 9, 109: semina cortice, Plin. 19, 7, 36, 119: obducta cicatrix,
, Nep. Hann. 5, 2; Curt. 8, 13, 25.—2.To close, shut up (poet.): obducta penetralia Phoebi, Luc. 5, 67: fores, Sen. Herc. Oet. 1548. mors oculos coepit obducere, Petr. S. 19.—3.To draw in, drink down, swallow: venenum, Cic. Tusc. 1, 40, 96: potionem, Sen. Prov. 3, 12: pultarium mulsi, to drink up, Petr. 42.—4.To swallow up, overwhelm: uti eos, eum exercitum, eos hostes, eosque homines, urbes agrosque eorum ... obducatis (an imprecation to the gods below), Macr. S. 3, 9, 10.— 5.To contract, wrinkle, knit the brow: obductā solvatur fronte senectus, Hor. Epod. 13, 5: frontem, Juv. 9, 2: vultum, Sen. Cons. ad Marc. 1, 5.—6.To injure, harm (late Lat.): stomachum, Cael. Aur. Tard. 3, 2, 28.—7.To bring home in opposition or rivalry to another: eum putat uxor sibi Obduxe scortum, Plaut. Merc. Arg. 1, 7.— II.Trop.A.To draw or spread over: obsidionem, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 198 Müll. (Trag. v. 11 Vahl.): clarissimis rebus tenebras obducere, i. e.
to darken, obscure
, Cic. Ac. 2, 6, 16: paulatim tenebris sese obducentibus, Plin. 11, 37, 54, 143.—B.Transf.1.To cover, conceal: obductus verbis dolor, Verg. A. 10, 64: obductos rescindere luctus, Ov. M. 12, 543: rei publicae obducere cicatricem, Cic. Leg. Agr. 3, 2, 4.—2. Qs., to draw out, i. e. to pass, spend time: itaque obduxi posterum diem, Cic. Att. 16, 6, 1.
