CURTAIL Copy link • CURTAILcurtare: decurtare (to shorten by cutting off apart): detruncare (to cutoff and so mutilate): subsecare (to cut off below, or a small part): abscidere (not abscindere: to shorten by hewing off a part): praecidere (to cut or hew off a piece in front): recidere; also praecidere (to cut from off the ends, to clip; e.g., pilos, the hair): resecare (to cut off what is too long). FIG. to curtail anybody’s power, pinnas alicujus or nervos alicujus incidere: to curtail anybody’s anything, praecidere alicui aliquid (e.g., his liberty): to curtail one’s expenses, parce vivere: sumtus circumcidere: modum facere sumtibus: impensas corripere (with regard to luxury, the last in Suet., Tiberius, 34); se cohibere (to restrain one’s self in one’s manner of living, in general): to curtail anything that one has written; e.g., commentarios, commentaries, writings, etc., in angustum cogere (Sen., Ep. 39, 1): injuria detrahere aliquid de aliqua re (to curtail or diminish in an unjust manner; e.g., anybody’s wages or salary-, de alicujus mercede, after Cic., Verr., 3, 78, 182): deminuere partem alicujus rei, or aliquid de aliqua re: detrahere de re (to lessen anything by the abstraction of a part): fraudare aliquem parte alicujus rei (e.g., servitia parte cibi diurni): To curtail anybody of his rights, deminuere partem juris or aliquid de jure; detrahere de jure.