mactant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →macto, mactare, mactavi, mactatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
magnify, honor; sacrifice; slaughter, destroy;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Aulularia
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...indotata est, ea in potestate est viri; dotatae mactant et malo et damno viros. sed eccum adfinem ante..." - T
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..." - P
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..."