calcent
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);
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Satura XV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...tamen et puerilis exercere acies quod nulla cadauera calcent. et sane quo tot rixantis milia turbae, si uiuunt..."
Liber Decimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...tecta superbi Sidonia atque ipsas calcent in sanguine Thebas. hortatur Capaneus: 'satis occultata, Pelasgi, delituit uirtus: nunc, nunc..."