inceste
Dictionary entries
- Entry →incestus, incesta, incestum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
unchaste; unholy, unclean, religiously impure, polluted, defiled, sinful, lewd;
voc. sg. (m.)
Examples
Liber I
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...sacrorum perfecto posset claro comitari Hymenaeo, sed casta inceste nubendi tempore in ipso hostia concideret mactatu maesta parentis..."Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Sabinum ita adloquitur: "Quidnam tu, hospes, paras?" inquit, "inceste sacrificium Dianae facere? Quin tu ante vivo perfunderis flumine..."