peccantem
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;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...delictum animi sit, non oportet peccata corrigere peccantem. 'Quid ergo? non irascar latroni? Quid ergo? non irascar uenefico..."Ars Amatoria II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...suae. Inde Thyestiaden animo thalamoque recepit, Et male peccantem Tyndaris ulta virum. Quae bene celaris, siqua tamen acta..."