unxit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →ungo, ungere, unxi, unctus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
anoint/rub (w/oil/unguent); smear with oil/grease; dress (food w/oil); add oil;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...bene imprecetur." Statim ampullam nardi aperuit omnesque nos unxit et: "Spero, inquit, futurum ut aeque me mortuum iuvet..." 
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...tenera tecum scripsisse Voluptas . . . 9a tunc Venus Idaliis unxit fastigia sucis permulsitque comis blandumque reliquit honorem sedibus..."- P
Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...optima restitit illi. lustratum genetrix divino corpus odore unxit et ambrosia cum dulci nectare mixta contigit os fecitque..."