mactatas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →macto, mactare, mactavi, mactatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
magnify, honor; sacrifice; slaughter, destroy;
acc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...cogat concidere ipsa, manibus ut si sint divis mactata repente. omnia quae naturali ratione geruntur, et quibus..."Octavia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...facinorum: caedes, doli, regni cupido, sanguinis diri sitis; mactata soceri concidit thalamis gener uictima, tuis ne fieret hymenaeis..."Metamorphoses XII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...festa dies aderat, qua Cycni victor Achilles Pallada mactatae placabat sanguine vaccae; cuius ut inposuit prosecta calentibus aris..."Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...referant, cum uix redimendi captiuos copia esset, et mactatas humanas hostias immolatosque liberos suos audirent. Stipendium scitote pependisse..."