at-tondĕo (better than adt-), tondi, tonsum, 2, v. a. (perf. redupl. sync. attodisse = attotondisse or attondisse, Verg. Cat. 8, 9: * attondi = attonderi, Veg. Art. Vet. 2, 28, 36),
to shave , shear , clip , crop (rare, and mostly poet.; syn.: tondeo, carpo, puto): rusticus Saturni dente relictam Persequitur vitem attondens, pruning , he cuts off the vine around , Verg. G. 2, 407: caput attonsum, Cels. 4, 3; and Vulg. Ezech. 44, 20: comam, ib. Lev. 19, 27; so, ad cutem, Scrib. Comp. 10.—Poet., to gnaw at , nibble : tenera attondent virgulta capellae, Verg. E. 10, 7: attonsa arva, i. e. fed down , Luc. 6, 84: prata, Aus. Mos. 203.—Trop.: consiliis nostris laus est attonsa Laconum, shorn , i. e. diminished , lessened , vet. poët. ap. Cic. Tusc. 5, 17, 49 (as transl. of the Gr. Ἡμετέραις βουλαῖς Σπάρτη μὲν ἐκείρατο δόξαν, Plut. 2, p. 1098): sic quoque attondentur, cut off , Vulg. Nahum, 1, 12: attondere aliquem, i. e. to cheat , fleece (cf. admutilo), Plaut. Capt. 2, 2, 18; and in a pun: attonsae quidem ambae usque sunt (oves), id. Bacch. 5, 2, 7; 5, 1, 9: metuo, si senex resciverit, Ne ulmos parasitos faciat, quae usque attondeant, rough-hew me , id. Ep. 2, 3, 6 (cf. Horace's fuste dolat, S. 1, 5, 23).