col-lĭno (conl-), lēvi, lĭtum, 3, v. a., to besmear, to cover over, defile, pollute: aliquid, aliquā re (rare; not in class. prose).
- I. Prop.: ora venenis, Ov. R. Am. 351: tabulas cerā, Gell. 17, 9, 17: crines adulteros pulvere, * Hor. C. 1, 15, 20 (cf. Verg. A. 12, 99: foedare in pulvere crines): caeno collitus, Plaut. Poen. 4, 2, 4.
- II. Trop.: pulchrum ornatum turpes mores pejus caeno collinunt, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 133; id. Poen. 1, 2, 96.