Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary

I.to cut off or away below, cut from below, to cut through, cut off, cut down, fell (rare but class.; not in Cic.): is pernas succidit iniquā superbiā Poeni, Enn. ap. Fest. pp. 304 and 305 Müll. (Ann. v. 279 Vahl.); cf.: “vivos Succisis feminibus poplitibusque invenerunt,” Liv. 22, 51, 7: “poplitem,” Verg. A. 10, 700: “crura equis (with suffodere ilia),” Liv. 42, 59, 3: “nervos equorum,” id. 44, 28, 14: “arbores,” Caes. B. G. 5, 9; Liv. 23, 24; Col. 2, 2, 11; 11, 2, 11; Plin. 16, 12, 23, § 58 al.: “asseres,” Liv. 44, 5, 6: “florem aratro, Verg.A.9,435: frumentis succisis,” cut down, mown down, Caes. B. G. 4, 38; 4, 19: “Cererem,” Verg. G. 1, 297: “(herbas) curvamine falcis aënae,” Ov. M. 7, 227: “segetem,” Sil. 15, 536 al.: cf.: “ita gregem metite imbellem ac succidite ferro,” mow down, Sil. 14, 134: “serpens succisa manu Herculeā,” Sen. Med. 702.—Poet.: “succisa libido,” emasculated, made powerless, Claud. in Eutr. 1, 190.