ulcĕro, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [ulcus], to make sore, cause to ulcerate (rare but class.). I.Lit.: nondum ulcerato Philocteta serpentis morsu, Cic. Fat. 16, 36: mantica cui lumbos onere ulceret, Hor. S. 1, 6, 106.— II.Trop.: non ancilla tuum jecur ulceret ulla, i. e. wound with love, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 72.
, Ter. Phorm. 4, 4, 9.—B.Transf., of trees, an excrescence, Plin. 17, 24, 37, 227: montium hulcera, i. e.
marble quarries
, id. 36, 15, 24, 125.—II.Trop.: ulcus (i. e. amor) enim vivescit et inveterascit alendo, Lucr. 4, 1068: quicquid horum attigeris, ulcus est, it will prove a sore place, i. e. will turn out absurd, Cic. N. D. 1, 37, 104: si tu in hoc ulcere tamquam inguen exsisteres, id. Dom. 5, 12.