Vítio, vítias, vitiâte. Plin. To corrupe: to vitiate: to defloure: to destroy: to deforme: to marre.Virginem vitiare.Plaut.To deslonre a mayde.Vitiare & corrumpere. Ci. Autæ vitiantur odoribus. Oui. The aire is infected or corrupted with slinking saunurs.Contagia mentis ægræ vitiant artus.Ouid.The grlefe and sorrow of minde hurteth my bodie, and maketh me sicke.Facies longis vitiabitur annis.Ouid.Beautie and fauout with age wil be corrupted.Heibæ vitiatæ.Ouid.Ventris vitiati tu mescebant pondera.Ouid.Vitiatur olum in amurcam. Plin. Oyle corrupteth, and turneth into lyes.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
vĭtĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [vitium], to make faulty, to injure, spoil, mar, taint, corrupt, infect, vitiate (class., esp. in the trop. sense; syn.: corrumpo, noceo). I.Lit.A. In gen.: dira lues quondam Latias vitiaverat auras, Ov. M. 15, 626; cf.: amnem salibus amaris, id. ib. 15, 286: ossa, Cels. 8, 2: corpora, Ov. F. 6, 136: oculos, id. F. 1, 691: facies longis vitiabitur annis, id. Tr. 3, 7, 33: ferramentum in opere, Col. 11, 1, 20: ova, id. 8, 11, 5: vina, Hor. S. 2, 4, 54: boves aliqua offensa, Pall. 4, 12, 1.—B. In partic., to violate a woman (cf.: violo, polluo): aliquam in occulto, Cato ap. Gell. 17, 13, 4: virginem, Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 37; id. Ad. 4, 5, 52; Suet. Aug. 71; Quint. 9, 2, 70 al.; cf.: vitiati pondera ventris (sc. stupro), Ov. H. 11, 37.—II.Trop.: comitiorum et contionum significationes sunt nonnumquam vitiatae atque corruptae,
falsified
, Cic. Sest. 54, 115 Halm N. cr.: dies, to make void the nomination of a day for the census, id. Att. 4, 9, 1; cf.: senatusconsulta arbitrio consulum supprimebantur vitiabanturque, Liv. 3, 55, 13: scripturas, Dig. 50, 17, 94: auspicia, Messala ap. Gell. 13, 15, 4: pectora limo malorum, Ov. P. 4, 2, 18; cf.: curis vitiatum corpus amaris, id. ib. 1, 10, 3.
