macta
Dictionary entries
- Entry →mactus, macta, mactum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
of the Gods, worshiped, honored;
abl. sg. (f.)acc. pl. (n.)nom. sg. (f.)nom. pl. (n.)voc. sg. (f.)voc. pl. (n.) - Entry →macto, mactare, mactavi, mactatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
magnify, honor; sacrifice; slaughter, destroy;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...ferarum, ut nunc saepe boves Lucae ferro male mactae diffugiunt, fera facta suis cum multa dedere. Sed facere..."Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...Ancaeum uiolentus ictu saetiger; fratrem, Meleagre, matris impius mactas morerisque dextra matris iratae: meruere cuncti++ morte quod crimen..."Aeneid VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...nubigenas, invicte, bimembris Hylaeumque Pholumque manu, tu Cresia mactas prodigia et vastum Nemeae sub rupe leonem. te Stygii..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...India Gange. Penthea tu, venerande, bipenniferumque Lycurgum sacrilegos mactas, Tyrrhenaque mittis in aequor corpora, tu biiugum pictis insignia..."