mactavit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →macto, mactare, mactavi, mactatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
magnify, honor; sacrifice; slaughter, destroy;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
APOCOLOCYNTOSIS
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...stipite ad terram accidas; haec clava reges saepe mactavit feros. Quid nunc profatu vocis incerto sonas? Quae patria..." - G
Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...victima succinctus poparum habitu elato alte malleo cultrarium mactavit. Lautiore convivio effusus subito in cachinnos consulibus, qui iuxta..." - P
Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Cretaeis sistet in oris.' sic fatus meritos aris mactavit honores, taurum Neptuno, taurum tibi, pulcher Apollo, nigram Hiemi..."