per-caedo

cĕcīdi, caesum, v. a.
I. to cut up completely = ad internecionem caedere (post-class.): exercitum, Flor. 3, 20, 10. (dub.; al. cecidit): terga hostium, id. 4, 12, 7.
Lewis & Short
A Latin Dictionary, 1879
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