mulcante
Dictionary entries
- Entry →mulco, mulcare, mulcavi, mulcatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
beat up, thrash, cudgel; worst, treat roughly;
abl. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...cella utor et nocte. Interim coctores insulariique mulcant exclusum, et alius veru extis stridentibus plenum in oculos eius..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...militaribus odiis materies et saeviendi principium. prostratos verberibus mulcant, sexageni singulos, ut numerum centurionum adaequarent: tum convulsos laniatosque..."