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‡ conflāges (-flōges, -frāges), places exposed on all sides to the winds, Paul. ex Fest. p. 40, 10 Muuml;ll.; the same in the access. form: ‡ confrages loca, Isid. Orig. 14, 8, 27.
confractĭo, ōnis, f. [confringo], a breach, rupture, Vulg. Isa. 24, 19; id. Psa. 105, 23 (al. confractura).
confractūra, ae, f., v. confractio.
confractus, a, um, Part. and P. a., from confringo.
‡ confrāges, v. ‡ conflages.
con-frăgōsus, a, um, adj., broken, rough, uneven (in good prose; cf. confragus; not in Cic.).
- I. Prop.: ager, Varr. R. R. 1, 18, 4: fundus, id. ib. 1, 20, 5: locus lapidibus, Col. 2, 2, 8; cf. id. 6, 17, 2; and Liv. 28, 2, 1; 32, 4, 4: via (together with ardua et aspera), id. 44, 3, 3; cf. Sen. Ep. 84, 13: angustiae, Liv. 38, 41, 5; 5, 26, 5.
Hence, subst.: confrăgōsum, i, n., a rough place or region: fortior miles ex confragoso venit, Sen. Ep. 51, 10: castra inter confragosa omnia locat, Liv. 21, 32, 9; 5, 26, 5.
Trop.: e confragosis atque asperis evecti, Quint. 6, 1, 52.
- II. Trop. (several times in Plaut. and in Quint. like fragosus; elsewhere rare): condiciones, hard, difficult, Plaut. Men. 4, 2, 25; id. Cist. 2, 3, 70; with velut, Quint. 8, 5, 29: nomina quaedam versusque, id. 1, 1, 37: argumenta (together with horrida), id. 5, 8, 1.
* Comp., Mall. Theod. Metr. 7.
No sup.
Hence, adv.: confrăgōsē, roughly, unevenly, Mar. Vict. p. 2550.
confrăgus, a, um, adj. [confringo] (post-Aug.; poet. for confragosus), rough, rugged, uneven: dumeta densis arboribus, Luc. 6, 126; Val. Fl. 3, 581.
Subst.: con-frăga, ōrum, n., a rough place, thicket: silvae, Stat. Th. 4, 494.
Comp., sup., and adv. not in use.
confringo, frēgi, fractum, 3, v. a. [frango], to break in pieces (class. in prose and poetry).
- I. Prop.: hirneam, Cato, R. R. 81: pultando pedibus paene confregi hasce ambas (fores), Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 25: fores caedendo, Liv. 26, 46, 6: portarum claustra, Lucr. 1, 71: imbrices et tegulas, Plaut. Mil. 2, 6, 24; id. Capt. 4, 4, 8: digitos, Cic. Fl. 30, 73: ossa, Plin. 28, 10, 45, § 159: arbores vi tempestatis, Dig. 39, 2, 24: enses ensibus, Luc. 7, 573: turres valli impetu, id. 6, 123: confracta navis, Plaut. Rud. 1, 2, 64; cf. * Suet. Ner. 34: scaeptra manu, Sen. Herc. Fur. 272.
Prov.: tesseram (hospitalem), to break friendship, violate faith, Plaut. Cist. 2, 1, 36.
- II. Trop., to break, bring to naught, destroy: rem, to dissipate, run through property, Plaut. Stich. 4, 2, 49; id. Trin. 1, 2, 71: superbiam, Titin. ap. Non. p. 316, 3: consilia senatoria, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 5, § 13: vires hostium, Val. Max. 7, 2, ext. 17: rem publicam, id. 4, 5, 2; Claud. Laud. Stil. 2, 69.
Hence, confractus, a, um, P. a., broken, uneven: in confracto (opp. in aequo), Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 127.