Sordeo, sordes, sórdui, sordêre. Mart. To be foule, vntleanly: sluttitsh or filthig.Iter sordet. Statius. Sordere alicui res aliqua dicitur.Cic.To be iudged vile, and nothing worth: to be nothing esteemed or regarded.Voluptas sordet oculis. Star. Sordere suis, & contemni ab eis.Liu.To be contemned and nothing set by of his seruants, countreymen or subiertes.
Sordes, sordis, f. g. Plau. Filth or vncleannesse: the sweeping of houses or canels.Sordes aurium.Cic. Sordes, pro reorum squalore. Quint. The heauie and sorrowfull state and countenaunce of those that are accused and are in greate daunger: the mourning countenance and apparell.Lugubres sordes.Cic.Mourning countenance & apparell.Iacêre in sordibus, Vide IACEO.Propter hominis sordes.Cic.For the couerousnesse & dishonest or vile fathion of the man.Accipere sordes, Vide ACCIPIO.Sordes vrbis.Cic.The rascall or vile sorte of men: the sinke of the citie. Sordes, pro Auaritia.Cic.Couetousnesse: cortuption by bribes and giftes in officers.Incusans eius fordes. Quint. Laying to his charge his dishonest couetousnesse and filthie receiuing of bribes.
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sordĕo, ēre, v. n. [cf. Goth. svarts; Germ. schwarz, black], to be dirty, filthy, foul (rare; not in Cic.; syn. squaleo). I.Lit.: Di. Jam lavisti? Ph. Num tibi sordere videor? Plaut. Truc. 2, 4, 28: cui manus materno sordet sparsa sanguine, Att. ap. Non. 170, 6: non splendeat toga: ne sordeat quidem, Sen. Ep. 5, 2: nullā teneri lanugine vultus, Mart. 1, 32, 5: Albanoque cadum sordentem promere fumo, Stat. S. 4, 8, 39: incola sordentium ganearum, Gell. 9, 2, 6.—II.Trop., to be mean, base, low, or sordid: haud sordere visus est Festus dies, i. e. had nothing mean or sordid in its appearance, Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 6: convivium inopiā, Favor. ap. Gell. 15, 8, 20: ignobilia et sordentia (verba),
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, Gell. 19, 13, 3 (shortly before, sordidum verbum).—B.Transf., to seem base or paltry; to be despised, slighted, or held of no account: suis sordere (with contemni), Liv. 4, 25, 11; Quint. 8, prooem. 26: sordent tibi munera nostra, Verg. E. 2, 44; Stat. S. 1, 3, 98: cunctane prae campo sordent?Hor. Ep. 1, 11, 4: pretium aetas altera sordet,
a renewal of youth seems too small a price
, id. ib. 1, 18, 18: quippe sordent prima quaeque, cum majora sperantur, Curt. 10, 10, 8: si conferas et componas Graeca ipsa, oppido quam jacere atque sordere incipiunt, quae Latina sunt,
sordes, is (abl. sordi, Lucr. 6, 1271; usu. sorde), f. [sordeo], dirt, filth, uncleanness, squalor (class.; esp. freq. in a trop. sense, and in plur.; syn.: situs, squalor, caenum, illuvies). I.Lit.(a).Plur.: pleni sordium, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 104 sq.: in sordibus aurium inhaerescere, Cic. N. D. 2, 57, 144: sint sine sordibus ungues, Ov. A. A. 1, 519: caret obsoleti Sordibus tecti, Hor. C. 2, 10, 7; Plin. 36, 26, 65, 191.—(b).Sing.: etiam in medio oculo paulum sordi'st, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 102: auriculae collectā sorde dolentes, Hor. Ep. 1, 2, 53: (pellis) Ulceribus tetris prope jam sordique sepultā, Lucr. 6, 1271.—B.Transf., plur., a mourning garment (because usu. soiled or dirty); and hence, mourning in gen. (syn. squalor): jacere in lacrimis et sordibus, Cic. Fam. 14, 2, 2; cf.: in sordibus, lamentis, luctuque jacuisti, id. Pis. 36, 89: mater squalore hujus et sordibus laetatur, id. Clu. 6, 18; 67, 192; id. Mur. 40, 86: sordes lugubres vobis erant jucundae, id. Dom. 23, 59; Liv. 6, 16 fin.; Quint. 6, 1, 33; Suet. Vit. 8: suscipere sordes, Tac. A. 4, 52; id. Or. 12; Val. Max. 7, 8, 7.—II.Trop., lowness or meanness of rank, a low condition; meanness, baseness of behavior or disposition (syn. illiberalitas). A. In gen.: sordes fortunae et vitae, Cic. Brut. 62, 224: obscuritas et sordes tuae, id. Vatin. 5, 11; id. Sest. 28, 60: ut quisque sordidissimus videbitur, ita libentissime severitate judicandi sordes suas eluet, id. Phil. 1, 8, 20: nulla nota, nullus color, nullae sordes videbantur his sententiis allini posse, id. Verr. 1, 6, 17: in infamiā relinqui ac sordibus, id. Att. 1, 16, 2; Liv. 4, 56: sordes illae verborum,
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, Tac. Or. 21: propter maternas sordes,
low origin
, Just. 13, 2, 11: pristinarum sordium oblitus, id. 25, 1, 9; cf. id. 18, 7, 11.—2. Concr., the dregs of the people, the mob, rabble (syn. faex): apud sordem urbis et faecem, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 11; so (with caenum) Plin. Ep. 7, 29, 3: sordes et obscuritatem Vitellianarum partium, Tac. H. 1, 84.—Hence, as a term of abuse: o lutum, o sordes!
low-minded creature
, Cic. Pis. 26, 62.—B. In partic., meanness, stinginess, niggardliness, sordidness (cf.: parcimonia, avaritia). (a).Plur.: (populus Romanus) non amat profusas epulas, sordes et inhumanitatem multo minus, Cic. Mur. 36, 76; so (opp. luxuria) Plin. Ep. 2, 6, 7: damnatus sordium, id. ib. 2, 12, 4: incusare alicujus sordes, Quint. 6, 3, 74: sordes obicere alicui, Hor. S. 1, 6, 68 and 107: sepulcrum sine sordibus exstrue, id. ib. 2, 5, 105: cogit minimas ediscere sordes,
the meanest tricks
, Juv. 14 124; 1, 140.—(b).Sing.: nullum hujus in privatis rebus factum avarum, nullam in re familiari sordem posse proferri, Cic. Fl. 3, 7; so (with avaritia) Tac. H. 1, 52; 1, 60: extremae avaritiae et sordis infimae infamis, App. M. 1, p. 112, 2.