maculavit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →maculo, maculare, maculavi, maculatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
spot; pollute; dishonor, taint;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- C
Pausanias
Cornelius Nepos
"...efflavit. Sic Pausanias magnam belli gloriam turpi morte maculavit. Cuius mortui corpus cum eodem nonnulli dicerent inferri oportere..." - P
Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Haemonio marcentia guttura cultro fodit et exiguo maculavit sanguine ferrum, membra simul pecudis validosque venefica sucos mergit..."