lampoon (subs.) Copy link • lampoon (subs.): fāmōsum carmen Hor. Ep. 1, 19, 31; also, famosi versus, id. S. 2, 1, 68: also, f. libellus (in prose or verse), Suet. Aug. 55. Phr.: to compose a l., carmen condere quod infamiam faciat flagitiumve alteri, XII. Tab. in Cic. fr. Rep. 4, 10; c. malum condere in aliquem, Hor. S. 2, 1, 82; probrosum carmen adversus aliquem facere, Tac. A. 14, 48.
lampoon (v.) Copy link • lampoon (v.): famosis s. probrosis carminibus lacesso; etc.: v. preced. art.
LAMPOON Copy link • LAMPOON 1. s. carmen famosum or probrosum; carmen quod infamiam facit flagitiumve alteri (Cic., De Rep., 4, 10, 12); carmen rafertum contumeliis alicujus; elogium (if affixed to a door; Plaut., Merc., 2, 3, 74); versus in alicujus cupiditatem facti (Cic., Verr., 5, 31, 81; all these if the lampoon is in verse): libellus famosus (Tac., Ann., 1, 72, 3; Suet., Oct., 55): to publish lampoons, carmina probrosa vulgare. 2. v. carmen probrosum facere in aliquem; libellum ad infamiam alicujus edere (Suet., Oct., 55); aliquem scriptis procacibus diffamare (Tac., Ann., 1, 72, 3); malum in aliquem carmen condere (after Hor., Sat., 2, 1, 81).