(verb) : macto, āvi, ātum, 1 (old form of
* Perf. subj. mactassint, Enn., Afran., and Pompon. ap. Non. 342, 12 sq.), macto, kindr. to Sanscr. makh, mah; intens. māmahyata, to slaughter, sacrifice; maha, victim; the ct in macto like vectum from veho; hence
* Within the religious sphere, to offer, sacrifice, immolate any thing in honor of the gods: ferctum Jovi moveto et mactato sic,Cato, R. R. 134, 2; so id. ib. § 4: pultem dis mactat, Varr. ap. Non. 341, 28: nigras pecudes,Lucr. 3, 52: lectas de more bidentes Cereri,Verg. A. 4, 57; Varr. ap. Non. 114, 27: mactatus vitulus concidit propter aras,Lucr. 2, 353: manibus divis mactata,id. 6, 759: mactata veniet lenior hostia,Hor. C. 1, 19, 16: mactata Polyxena,Ov. M. 13, 448: trecenti ex dediticiis hostiarum more mactati,Suet. Aug. 15: vite caper morsa Bacchi mactandus ad aras,Ov. M. 15, 114: suovetaurilia mactanda, Fronto de Fer. Als. 3 Mai.: se Orco,Liv. 9, 40: hostium legiones Telluri ac diis Manibus mactandas dabo,id. 10, 28; cf.: ruptores pacis ultioni et gloriae,Tac. A. 2, 13.
* Beyond the relig. sphere.
* To present, reward, honor with any thing good or bad: Livius inde redit magno mactatu' triumpho, Enn. ap. Serv. Verg. A. 9, 641 (Ann. v. 302 Vahl.): eos ferunt laudibus et mactant honoribus,heap honors on, extol,Cic. Rep. 1, 43, 67 (also ap. Non. 342, 5); id. Vatin. 6, 14; id. Div. 1, 11, 18.
* Aliquem or aliquid, to overthrow, ruin, destroy, Cic. Fl. 22, 52: quorum ego furori nisi cessissem, in Catilinae busto vobis ducibus mactatus essem,should have been sacrificed,id. ib. 7, 16: perfidos et ruptores pacis ultioni et gloriae mactandos,to offer up, immolate,Tac. A. 2, 13: cum videant jus civitatis illo supplicio esse mactatum,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 11, § 26: aut naves uram, aut castra mactabo, to destroy, Att. ap. Non. 341, 18.—Hence, mactus, a, um, Part., sync. for mactatus: boves mactae,Lucr. 5, 1339 (better referred to maco, q. v.).
* To kill, slaughter, put to death: hic mactat Ladona, Pheretaque Demodocumque,Verg. A. 10, 413: illigatas mollibus damas plagis,Mart. 1, 50, 24: haec dextra Lernam taetra mactata excetra Pacavit, Cic. poët. Tusc. 2, 9, 22.
* To magnify; trop, to extol, glorify, honor; esp. to glorify honor a deity with sacrifices, to worship: Liberum patrem fanorum consecratione mactatis,Arn. 1, 24: puerorum extis deos manes mactare,Cic. Vatin. 6, 14.
* Poet., to give splendor to a festival: lacte Latinas, Cic. poët. Div. 1, 11, 18.

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