HARROW Copy link • HARROW 1. s. irpex (al. hirpex or urpex, with iron teeth, and drawn by oxen; it is still called “erpice” in Italy): crates (a wattled harrow, to level the ground with; if with teeth for breaking the clods, crates dentata; called, in Italy “strascino”): ☞ occa only in Isidorus, where it is explained by rastrum. The Roman farmers also used a malleus for breaking the clods. 2. v. occare (both for levelling the ground and breaking the clods): cratire (for levelling the ground). To sow and harrow, semen injicere, cratesque dentatas supertrahere: to level the ground by harrowing, glebes crate inducta coaequare. IMPROPR., To harrow a man’s feelings, alicujus pectus effodere (Cic.); cruciare, excruciare; conscindere or torquere aliquem (Cic.); excruciare aliquem animi (Plaut.): *acerbissimo dolore afficere alicujus animum. Pillage, etc., Vid: HARROWER, occator.