saucĭo, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [saucius], to wound, hurt.
I Lit. (class. but rare; not in Caes.; syn.: vulnero, laedo): Rubrius in turbā sauciatur, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 26, § 67; id. Vatin. 5, 13: ut ictu tragulae sauciaretur, Sall. Fragm. ap. Non. 398, 8 (Hist. 2, 19 Dietsch): aliquem virgis, Plaut. Rud. 3, 4, 53: ungue genas, Ov. A. A. 3, 708: radices, Cato ap. Plin. 17, 22, 35, § 198: sive quis sauciatus in opere noxam ceperit, Col. 11, 1, 18.—*
2 In partic., pregn., to kill : meus discipulus valde amat illum, quem Brutus noster sauciavit, has stabbed , mortally wounded , Cic. Att. 14, 22, 1.—
B Transf. (acc. to saucius, II. B. 2.), of the cultivation of the soil, to dig into , tear up the ground: sauciet ut duram vomer aduncus humum, Ov. R. Am. 172: terrae summam partem levi vomere, Col. 2, 2, 23; cf. the words vulnero, vulnus, cicatrix, etc.—
2 To prune , trim : saucianda ferro est atque exulceranda vitis in eā parte, Col. 4, 24, 17: obliquam vitem plerumque sauciat et interdum praecidit, id. 4, 4, 2.—
3 Poet., with se (cf. vulg. Engl., to get shot ), to get drunk : haec anus admodum friguttit nimirum sauciavit se flore Liberi, Auct. ap. Fulg. 562, 25; cf. percutio, in the same sense, Plaut. Cas. 3, 5, 20.—
II Trop. (anteand post-class.; rare), to wound , hurt , injure , impair : aculeata sunt, facta et famam sauciant, Plaut. Bacch. 1, 1, 30; cf.: cor odio, id. ib. 2, 2, 35: hoc modo sauciabatur salus hostium nesciorum, Amm. 24, 1, 14; Ap. Met. 8, p. 205, 35 (not found).