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                    "description": "(v. a.P. a.) : pollŭo, ŭi, ūtum, 3, v. a.cf.: adluo, diluo; Gr. λούω, to wash; λῦμα, λύμη, λυμαίνω, to cleanse, ruin\n* To soil, defile, pollute.\n* Lit. (very rare): ore dapes,Verg. A. 3, 234: ora cruore,Ov. M. 15, 98: pollui cuncta sanie, odore, contactu,Tac. A. 4, 49: usu tegmina,id. ib. 13, 57: vina deciduo immundiore lapsu,Plin. 14, 19, 23, § 119: polluta mensa cruore,Sil. 7, 183.\n* Trop.\n* In gen., to defile morally, to pollute, contaminate, violate, dishonor, desecrate, etc. (class.; syn.: inquino, contamino): polluta et violata sacra,Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 72, § 187; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 26, 71: deorum hominumque jura inexpiabili scelere,id. Phil. 11, 12, 29: fratris filiam incesto,Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 6: tragico pollutus concubitu,Juv. 2, 29: famam domūs stupro turpi,Phaedr. 3, 10, 17: nec Electrae jugulo se polluit,Juv. 8, 218: mentem suam et aures hominum nefariā voce,Tac. A. 3, 50: incestis se matrimoniis, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 6, 4, 3: jejunia, to violate, break, Nigid. ap. Isid. Orig. 20, 2: Jovem,to insult,Prop. 4 (5), 9, 8. ferias, to desecrate (by labor), Gell. 2, 28, 3: avaritia invadit, polluit, vastat omnia,Sall. J. 41, 9; Ov. M. 2, 794: polluta pax,Verg. A. 7, 467: polluendam perdendamque rempublicam relinquere,Tac. H. 2, 76: ferias,Macr. S. 1, 16, 11.—Esp., in eccl. Lat., to render unclean, in a ceremonial sense, Vulg. Lev. 7, 21; pass., to be unclean, id. ib. 11, 27; 15, 32: pollutum et mundum,id. ib. 10, 10: pollutum comedit, id. Osee, 9, 3.\n* In partic., to violate, dishonor a woman (post-Aug.), Tac. A. 12, 46; id. Agr. 31; Vulg. Ezech. 18, 11.—Hence, pollū-tus, a, um, P. a., polluted, i. e. no longer virgin, then vicious, unchaste, Cat. 60, 46: femina,Liv. 10, 23, 10: princeps,Tac. H. 2, 37 fin.: scelesta pollutaque femina,App. M. 10, 34.—Comp.: senectus,more vicious, more sinful,Sil. 11, 47.—Sup.: dives,App. M. 9, p. 234, 31."
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