maculavit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →maculo, maculare, maculavi, maculatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
spot; pollute; dishonor, taint;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Pausanias
Cornelius Nepos
"...efflavit. Sic Pausanias magnam belli gloriam turpi morte maculavit. Cuius mortui corpus cum eodem nonnulli dicerent inferri oportere..."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..."