trunco, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [2. truncus],
I to maim , mutilate , mangle , or shorten by cutting off, to cut off (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose; syn.: mutilo, amputo): truncata simulacra deum, Liv. 31, 30, 7: statuis regis truncatis, id. 31, 23, 10: truncat olus foliis, strips , cuts off the leaves , Ov. M. 8, 647: truncato ex vulneribus corpore, Tac. A. 1, 17; cf. id. H. 3, 33: truncatā corporis parte, partem corporis, Just. 11, 14, 11; 15, 3, 4: cadavera, Luc. 6, 584: caput, id. 6, 566: lacertos, Claud. ap. Ruf. 2, 411: frontem, i. e. to deprive of an eye , Sil. 4, 541: manibusque truncatus et armis, deprived of his hands and weapons , Claud. B. Get. 88: quia antiquum illud (signum) vetustate truncatum est, Plin. Ep. 9, 39, 4: truncatis arboribus, Suet. Calig. 45 init. —Poet., transf.: aquas, to cut apart , rend asunder , separate , Claud. Gigant. 70: heroos tenores gressu, i. e. to shorten hexameters into pentameters , Stat. S. 2, 3, 98.—Pregn.: cervos, i. e. to kill , Val. Fl. 6, 567; Amm. 15, 4, 11. —
II Trop.: tunc omnibus fere membris erat truncata respublica, Eum. Pan. Const. Caes. 10.