I.perf. contūdit, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 891 P., or Ann. v. 482 Vahl.; but contŭdit, id. ap. Prisc. l. l., or Ann. v. 387 Vahl.), v. a., to beat, bruise, grind, crush, pound, break to pieces (syn.: confringo, debilito; very freq. and class. in prose and poetry; not in Quint.; for in 11, 2, 13, confudit is the better reading).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: oleas in lentisco, Cato. R. R. 7, 4 (cited ap. Varr. R. R. 1, 60): “thymum in pila,” Varr. R. R. 3, 16, 14; cf.: “radices ferreis pilis,” Col. 7, 7, 2: florem nullo aratro, * Cat. 62, 40: “colla,” Col. 6, 2, 8; 6, 14, 3: classis victa, fusa, contusa, fugataque est, Inscr. ap. Liv. 40, 52, 6: “aliquem male fustibus,” Plaut. Aul. 3, 1, 4; cf.: “aliquem pugnis,” id. Bacch. 3, 3, 46; and: “pugiles caestibus contusi,” Cic. Tusc. 2, 17, 40: “aliquem saxis,” Hor. Epod. 5, 98: “pectus ictu,” Ov. M. 12, 85: “faciem planā palmā (with caedere pectus pugnis),” Juv. 13, 128: “contusi ac debilitati inter saxa rupesque,” Liv. 21, 40, 9: “hydram,” Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 10: “nares a fronte resimas,” to squeeze together, press in, Ov. M. 14, 96.—With acc. of part: “asper equus duris contunditur ora lupatis,” Ov. Am. 1, 2, 15.—Poet. of the beating to pieces of crops by hail: “vites grando,” Hor. Ep. 1, 8, 5 (cf. id. C. 3, 1, 29: non verberatae grandine vineae); “and of lameness produced by disease, etc.: postquam illi justa cheragra Contudit articulos ( = debilitavit nodis),” id. S. 2, 7, 16 (cf. Pers. 5, 58: cum lapidosa cheragra fregerit articulos, has crippled).—
B. In medic. lang.: contūsum (-tun-sum ), i, n., a bruise, contusion (cf. contusio), Scrib. Comp. 209; Cels. 5, 28, 14; Plin. 29, 6, 39, § 136 sq. al.—
II. Trop., to break, lessen, weaken, destroy, subdue, put down, baffle, check, etc. (syn.: frango, obtero, vinco): virosque valentes contudit crudelis hiems, Enn. ap. Prisc. p. 891 P.; cf. id. Ann. v. 387 and 482 Vahl.: “corpora conturbant magno contusa labore,” Lucr. 4, 958: “populos feroces,” Verg. A. 1, 264: “ferocem Hannibalem,” Liv. 27, 2, 2: “nostrae opes contusae hostiumque auctae erant,” Sall. J. 43, 5: “contudi animum et fortasse vici,” Cic. Att. 12, 44, 3; cf.: “animos feros placidā arte,” Ov. A. A. 1, 12: “contudi et fregi exsultantis praedonis audaciam,” Cic. Phil. 13, 13, 29: “calumniam et stultitiam (with obtrivit),” id. Caecin. 7, 18: “regum tumidas minas,” Hor. C. 4, 3, 8: “impetus,” id. ib. 3, 6, 10: “ingenium patientia longa laborum,” Ov. Tr. 5, 12, 31: “facta Talthybi,” i. e. to surpass by my own, Plaut. Stich. 2, 1, 33. (But in Lucr. 5, 692, concludit is the right reading, Lachm., Munro.)