mactare lectas bidentes

bidēns, entis (bis u. dens), zweizähnig, I) eig.: 1) zweizähnig, amica, Priap. 82, 26. – 2) als t. t. der Opferspr., doppelt bezahnt, d.i. (nach Paul. ex Fest. 4, 17) schon beide Zahnreihen vollständig habend, ausgewachsen, verres, Pompon. com. 52: hostia, Hyg. fr. b. Gell. 16, 6, 4: bos, Paul. ex Fest. 35, 2. – subst. (f.), ein doppelt bezahntes Opfertier, bes. ein Schaf, bidenti facere (opfern), Laber. fr.: mactare lectas bidentes, Verg.: tentare multā caede bidentium deos, Hor.: Corruncanius ruminales hostias, donec bidentes fierent, puras negavit, Plin. – übtr., übh. ein Schaf, Phaedr. 1, 17, 8. – II) übtr., zweizackig, ancora, Plin.: forfex, Verg. cat. 8, 9: ferrum, Ps. Verg. cir. 213: ligones, Veget. mil. 2, 25. – subst. (m.), ein zweizinkiger Karst (griech. δίκελλα), als Werkzeug der Landleute zum Behacken des Bodens, bidente pastinari solum vineae praecipit, Plin.: gleba versis frangenda bidentibus, Verg. – dah. meton., bidentis amans, dem Landbau hold, Iuven. 3, 228.

m. (sc. raster) кирка, мотыга

macto, āvi, ātum, 1 (old form of perf. subj. mactassint, Enn., Afran., and Pompon. ap. Non. 342, 12 sq.), v. freq. a. [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.—

Far more freq. in a bad sense, to afflict, trouble, punish with any thing: illum di deaeque magno mactassint malo, Enn. ap. Non. 342, 15 (Trag. v. 377 Vahl.); Afran. ib. 16; Cic. Vatin. 15, 36; cf. without abl., Pompon. ib. 12:

dotatae mactant et malo et damno viros,

Plaut. Aul. 3, 5, 61; cf.:

mactare malo adficere significat,

Non. 342, 8:

aliquem infortunio,

Plaut. Poen. 3, 1, 14: faxo tali eum mactatum, atque hic est, infortunio, * Ter. Phorm. 5, 9, 39:

hostes patriae aeternis suppliciis vivos mortuosque mactabis,

pursue, punish, Cic. Cat. 1, 13, 33; cf.:

divisores omnium tribuum domi ipse suae crudelissima morte mactaret,

id. Harusp. Resp. 20, 42:

aliquem summo supplicio,

id. ib. 1, 11, 27:

aliquem morte,

id. Rep. 2, 35, 60:

mactantur comminus uno exitio,

Sil. 17, 500.—

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 [p. 1094] 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.—

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.).