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incesto

incesto, to pollute, defile

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

incestō, āvī, ātus, 1, a.: to defile, pollute, 6.150. (incestus, unclean)
incesto, āvi, 1, v. a. [incestus], to pollute, defile (poet. and in post-Aug. prose).
  • I In gen.: totamque incestat funere classem, Verg. A. 6, 150: aras, Stat. S. 5, 5, 4: diem (Furiae), id. Th. 11, 120; Claud. Cons. Mall. Theod. 267.—
  • II In partic., to dishonor, defile with lust: puellam, Plaut. Poen. 5, 2, 136 (1096): filiam, Tac. A. 6, 19: se, Suet. Tib. 43: thalamos novercae, Verg. A. 10, 389.

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