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mactas

Dictionary entries

mactus, macta, mactum:
Adjective · 1st declension
Frequency:
Lesser
of the Gods, worshiped, honored;
Entry →
acc. pl. (f.)
macto, mactare, mactavi, mactatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
Frequency:
Lesser
magnify, honor; sacrifice; slaughter, destroy;
Entry →
sg. pres. act. ind. 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..."