pecca
Dictionary entries
- Entry →pecco, peccare, peccavi, peccatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sin; do wrong, commit moral offense; blunder, stumble; be wrong;; make mistake; make slip in speaking; act incorrectly; go wrong, be faulty;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Casina
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...ueram in uiam. CLE. Per pol saepe peccas. LY. Ita fit, ubi quid tanto opere expetas..."Liber II
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...uolo. Quod fellas et aquam potas, nil, Lesbia, peccas: qua tibi parte opus est, Lesbia, sumis aquam. Vnus..."Liber I
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...teste dolet. Incustoditis et apertis, Lesbia, semper liminibus peccas nec tua furta tegis, et plus spectator quam..."Phoenissae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...ducis exsequias patris. Aliquando terra corpus inuisum tege. Peccas honesta mente: pietatem uocas, Patrem insepultum trahere. Qui cogit..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...scelestus; si mori pateris, tamen in matre peccas—urget hinc illinc scelus. inhibenda tamen est: pergam et eripiam..."Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...Ipse certe usus est hac libertate: "non multa peccas, inquit ille fortissimo viro senior magister": neutrum enim nomen..."Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...negantem. vel cum Pausiaca torpes, insane, tabella, qui peccas minus atque ego, cum Fulvi Rutubaeque aut Pacideiani contento..."