mutilated (part. adj.) Copy link Outline 1. mŭtĭlus (strictly, having lost the extremities, wholly or in part)2. mŭtĭlātus (poet.)3. truncus (strictly, having lost head or arms; but used poet. of mutilation in gen. sense)4. truncātus, dētruncātus • mutilated (part. adj.): 1. mŭtĭlus (strictly, having lost the extremities, wholly or in part): Hor. S. 1, 5, 60 (= having lost a horn): broken and m. characters, litterae truncae atque m., Gell. 17, 9, med.. Cic. (in fig. sense = unconnected, fragmentary, Or. 9, 32, etc.). Of a MS., to be very much m., multis locis m. esse, Tisch. pref. N. T. 2. mŭtĭlātus (poet.): the tail of a m. viper, m. cauda colubrae, Ov. M. 6, 559. 3. truncus (strictly, having lost head or arms; but used poet. of mutilation in gen. sense): a child with m. body (i. e. prob. without a head), puer trunci corporis, Liv. 41, 9, med.: nostrils m. with shameful wound, truncae inhonesto vulnere nares, Virg. Aen. 6, 497 Ov. 4. truncātus, dētruncātus: v. to mutilate (2). Phr.: (the manuscript) contains the gospels, but sadly m., continet evangelia, sed folia permulta periere, Tisch. pref. N. T.: cf. supr. (1).