massacre (subs.) Copy link Outline 1. caedes, is, f. (any murder or slaughter)2. trŭcīdātio (act of massacreing)3. internĕcio, ōnis, f. (utter destruction, extermination) • massacre (subs.): 1. caedes, is, f. (any murder or slaughter): the m. of such of us as remained behind, nostra c. qui remansissemus, Cic. Cat. 1, 3, 7: a wholesale m., infinita c., ib. 3, 10, extr.: v. slaughter. 2. trŭcīdātio (act of massacreing): no longer a battle, but a m., inde non jam pugna, sed tr. [velut pecorum], Liv. 28, 16, med.: cf. Cic. Ph. 4, 5, 11, cruor, caedes, ante oculos tr. civium: the September m.s, *trucidationes illae Septembres, quae dicuntur. 3. internĕcio, ōnis, f. (utter destruction, extermination): cf. Cic. Cat. 3, 10, 25, quae dissensiones ... non reconciliatione concordiae sed internecione civium dijudicatae sunt: v. extermination. Phr.: the m. of St. Bartholomew's day, *nuptiae istae (illae?) cruentae, exitiales Parisienses (Kr.): or, *caedes illa St. Bartholomaei festi quae dicitur: after the m. of so many thousands of unarmed soldiers, trucidatis tot millibus inermium militum, Tac. H. 1, 6: so, Cic. Cat. 3, 10, 24, clarissimis viris interfectis (referring to the wholesale carnage of Cinna and Marius): v. to slay, butcher.