• slain: as a part. or adj.: v. slay: as a subs. expr., esp. in poet., by caedes is, f. (prop. slaughter): heaps of the s., caedis acervi, Virg. Aen. 10, 245 (cf. acervi caesorum corporum, Liv. 22, 48; strues corporum, Tac. H. 3, 83): the streets are full of the s., plenae caedibus viae, Tac. H. 4, 1: so strāges, is, f.: some rising from amongst the s., adsurgentes quidam ex media strage, Liv. 22, 51. Phr.: to steep one's hands in the blood of the s., manus nece imbuere, Ov. A. A. 2, 714: the plains are strewn with the s., morte campi contecti sunt, Att. Fragm.