commacularent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →commaculo, commaculare, commaculavi, commaculatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stain deeply, pollute, defile; contaminate, defile morally; sully (reputation);
pl. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Ecloga VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...tibia, uersus. Saeuos Amor docuit natorum sanguine matrem commaculare manus; crudelis tu quoque, mater: crudelis mater magis..."BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...optimum cum pessimo omnium Iugurtha miscendo commaculares, simul nobis demeres acerbam necessitudinem, pariter te errantem atque illum sceleratissimum..."