incestus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →incestus, incesta, incestum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
unchaste; unholy, unclean, religiously impure, polluted, defiled, sinful, lewd;
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...peccatus", quasi "peccatio", recte Latineque dicitur, sicut "hic incestus" non qui admisit, sed quod admissum..."Satura IV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...aedes [nemo malus felix, minime corruptor et idem] incestus, cum quo nuper uittata iacebat sanguine adhuc uiuo terram..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...minxerit in patrios cineres, an triste bidental mouerit incestus; certe furit, ac uelut ursus, obiectos caueae ualuit..."