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tondĕo, tŏtondi, tonsum, 2 (collat. form acc. to the third conj.: OVES TONDVNTVR, Calend. ap. Grut. 138), v. a. [for tomdeo; root in Gr. τέμνω, to cut], to shear, clip, crop, to shave, etc.

  1. I. Lit.: barbam et capillum, Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58; so, barbam, Mart. 11, 39, 3: capillum, Ov. M. 8, 151: cutem, Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 7: os, Cat. 61, 139: ovem, Plaut. Merc. 3, 1, 28; Hor. Epod. 2, 16; Verg. G. 3, 443; Plin. 18, 27, 67, § 257; cf. lanam, Hor. C. 3, 15, 14: naevos in facie, Plin. 28, 4, 6, § 34: saltatrix tonsa, i. e. with hair clipped short (of the Consul Gabinius), Cic. Pis. 8, 18; cf.: tonsus puer or minister, cropped, i. e. common, mean, Mart. 10, 98, 9; 11, 11, 3: ad alta tonsum templa cum reum misit, i. e. acquitted (prop. without the untrimmed hair of accused persons), id. 2, 74, 3.
    Mid.: lavamur et tondemur et convivimus ex consuetudine, Quint. 1, 6, 44.
    Absol.: ne tonsori collum committeret, tondere filias suas docuit, Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58.
    And in reflex. sense: ut decrescente lunā tondens calvus fiam, shaving myself, Varr. R. R. 1, 37, 2: candidior postquain tondenti barba cadebat, Verg. E. 1, 29.
  2. II. Transf.
    1. A. To crop, lop, prune, trim: ille comam mollis jam tondebat hyacinthi, was cropping, Verg. G. 4, 137: violas manu, Prop. 3, 13, 29: vitem in pollicem, Col. 4, 21, 3: oleas, vites, Plin. 15, 1, 2, § 4: balsamum, id. 12, 25, 54, § 112: ilicem bipennibus, to lop, Hor. C. 4, 4, 57: myrtos, Quint. 8, 3, 8.
    2. B. To mow, reap: tonsas cessare novales patiere, after harvest, Verg. G. 1, 71: nocte arida prata Tondentur, id. ib. 1, 290: tondeturque seges maturos annua partus, Tib. 4, 1, 172: tonsam verrit humum, Ov. R. Am. 192; Sen. Phoen. 130.
    3. C. To crop, to graze, feed, or browse upon, to eat off; to pluck, gather, cull (poet.): ex uno tondentes gramina campo Lanigerae pecudes, Lucr. 2, 660: pabula (pecudes), id. 2, 317: dumeta (juvenci), Verg. G. 1, 15: campum late (equi), id. A. 3, 538: viridantia gramina morsu, id. Cul. 49: tondentes comam fluvii capellae, App. M. 5, p. 169, 37: jecur rostro (vultur), Verg. A. 6, 598: ales avida fecundum jecur, Sen. Agam. 18; cf. in a Greek constr.: illa autem, quae tondetur praecordia rostro Alitis, Sil. 13, 839.
    4. D. As in Engl., to shave, fleece, for to deprive, plunder (very rare): adibo hunc . . . itaque tondebo auro usque ad vivam cutem, Plaut. Bacch. 2, 3, 8: tondens purpureā regna paterna comā, Prop. 3, 19 (4, 18), 22.

tonsor (TOSOR, Inscr. Fabr. p. 214, n. 546), ōris, m. [tondeo].

  1. I. A shearer, clipper, shaver of the hair, beard, nails, etc., a hair-cutter, barber, Varr. R. R. 2, 11, 10; Cic. Tusc. 5, 20, 58; Plin. 7, 59, 59, § 211; Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 92; 1, 1, 94; 1, 7, 50; id. A. P. 301; Mart. 6, 57, 3; 11, 84, 2; Suet. Aug. 79; Inscr. Orell. 2883; a shearer of sheep: ovium, Vulg. Gen. 38, 12; cf. Becker, Gallus, 3, p. 136 (2d edit.).
    Of a nail-cutter: tonsor ungues dempserat, Plaut. Aul. 2, 4, 33.
    Prov.: omnibus et lippis notum et tonsoribus esse, i. e. to be known to every body, to all the world, Hor. S. 1, 7, 3.
  2. II. A clipper, lopper, pruner, of plants: ramorum luxuriantium, Arn. 6, p. 197.