mactant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →macto, mactare, mactavi, mactatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
magnify, honor; sacrifice; slaughter, destroy;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Aulularia
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...indotata est, ea in potestate est viri; dotatae mactant et malo et damno viros. sed eccum adfinem ante..."Liber III
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...cumque tamen miseri venere parentant et nigras mactant pecudes et manibus divis inferias mittunt multoque in rebus acerbis..."Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...pudorem. principio delubra adeunt pacemque per aras exquirunt; mactant lectas de more bidentis legiferae Cereri Phoeboque patrique Lyaeo..."