backbite Copy link Outline 1. rōdo, rōsi, rōsum, 32. vellĭco, 13. maledico dente carpere, Cic. Phr. • backbite: 1. rōdo, rōsi, rōsum, 3: they b. at banquets, rodunt in conviviis, Cic.: more precisely, to b. a friend, absentem amicum r., Hor. 2. vellĭco, 1: Cic. Join: rodere et vellicare. 3. maledico dente carpere, Cic. Phr.: they all envied, b.bit me, invidere omnes mihi, mordere clanculum, Ter.: v. to slander.