calcas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →calco, calcare, calcavi, calcatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
tread/trample upon/under foot, crush; tamp/ram down; spurn; copulate (cock);
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...Luna teste mouentur, inde domos abeunt: tu calcas luce reuersa coniugis urinam magnos uisurus amicos. nota bonae secreta..."
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...legibus Argos incolis et mersum tumulis Eurysthea calcas, sive tui solium Iovis et virtute parata, astra tenes, haustumque..."