touch (v.) Copy link Outline I. Lit.1. tango, tĕtĭgi, tactum, 32. attingo, tĭgi, tactum, 33. contingo, 34. attrecto, 1, contrecto, 15. affĭcio, 3II. Fig.1. tango, 32. attingo, 33. affĭcio, fēci, fectum4. mŏveo, mōvi, mōtum, 25. flecto, xi, xum, 36. stringo, nxi, ctum, 3 • touch (v.): I. Lit.: 1. tango, tĕtĭgi, tactum, 3: to t. the ground with the knee, t. genu terram, Cic. Tusc. 2, 24, 57: she t.'d their faces with a wand, ora virga t., Ov. Met. 14, 413. Of food: wolves did not t. the bodies, corpora non t. lupi, Ov. Met. 7, 550: Plaut. [v. taste]. 2. attingo, tĭgi, tactum, 3: before the battering ram had t.'d the wall, priusquam aries murum attigisset, Caes. B. G. 2, 32: (no one) has t.'d a fraction of my booty, de praeda mea (nemo) teruncium a., Cic. Fam. 2, 17, 4. 3. contingo, 3: the moon almost t.ing the earth, luna terram paene c., id. Div. 2, 41, 91: v. reach, seize. 4. attrecto, 1, contrecto, 1: v. handle. 5. affĭcio, 3: v. affect. Not to t., abstĭneo (with refl. pron. and abl.), Cic.: v. abstain. To t. lightly, lībo, 1 (poet.), Ov. A. A. 1, 577. II. Fig.: to affect mentally: 1. tango, 3: to t. the heart by a complaint, cor t. querela, Hor. A. P. 98: Cic.: Liv. 2. attingo, 3: Lucr.: Cic.: Liv.: v. affect. 3. affĭcio, fēci, fectum: Cic.: v. affect. 4. mŏveo, mōvi, mōtum, 2: v. move. 5. flecto, xi, xum, 3: v. bend, soften. 6. stringo, nxi, ctum, 3: the spectacle of filial piety t.'d his heart, animum patriae s. pietatis imago, Virg. Aen. 9, 294. Phr.: to t., t. nearly, any one's honour or character, violare alicujus existimationem, Cic. Fam. 13, 73.