crux

crux ucis, f

CVR-, a gallows, frame, tree (on which criminals were impaled or hanged), C.— A cross : (mereri) crucem, T.: cruci suffixi: in crucem acti, S.: Non pasces in cruce corvos, H.: pretium sceleris, Iu.— Torture, trouble, misery, destruction : quaerere in malo crucem, T.—Colloq.: i in malam crucem! go and be hanged , T.