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mulco
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Lewis Short
(verb) : mulco (‡ mulcto, Inscr. Grut. 155, 1), āvi, ātum, 1 (mulcassitis, for mulcaveritis, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 8), Sanscr. root marc, take hold of; of. Gr. μάρπτω, perh. μορφή
* To beat, cudgel; to maltreat, handle roughly, injure (class.; syn.: verbero, tundo, pulso).
* Lit.: ipsum dominum atque omnem famibam Mulcavit usque ad mortem,Ter. Ad 1, 2, 9; Petr. S. 134: aliquem,to illtreat,Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 23: male mulcati clavis ac fustibus repelluntur,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94: mulcato corpore,with bodies bruised,Tac. A. 1, 70: prostratos verberibus,id. ib. 32.—Of inanimate things: naves,to injure, damage,Liv. 28, 30, 12.
* Trop.: scriptores illos male mulcatos, exisse cum Galbā,Cic. Brut. 22, 88 (but in Plaut. Stich. 3, 1, 8, mulcaverim is undoubtedly corrupt, v. Ritschl ad h. l.).
* To beat, cudgel; to maltreat, handle roughly, injure (class.; syn.: verbero, tundo, pulso).
* Lit.: ipsum dominum atque omnem famibam Mulcavit usque ad mortem,Ter. Ad 1, 2, 9; Petr. S. 134: aliquem,to illtreat,Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 23: male mulcati clavis ac fustibus repelluntur,Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94: mulcato corpore,with bodies bruised,Tac. A. 1, 70: prostratos verberibus,id. ib. 32.—Of inanimate things: naves,to injure, damage,Liv. 28, 30, 12.
* Trop.: scriptores illos male mulcatos, exisse cum Galbā,Cic. Brut. 22, 88 (but in Plaut. Stich. 3, 1, 8, mulcaverim is undoubtedly corrupt, v. Ritschl ad h. l.).
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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