propitiatory sacrifiee

pĭācŭlum (sync. collat. form pĭā-clum, Prud. steph. 14, 219), i, n. [pio], a means of appeasing a deity; hence,

Lit.

A sin-offering, propitiatory sacrifiee: [p. 1374] porco piaculo facito, Cato, R. R. 139; 140:

porcc femina piaculum pati,

to bring, Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 57:

piaculum hostia caedi,

Liv. 8, 10:

te piacula nulla resolvent,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 34:

piacula manibus infert,

Ov. M. 6, 569:

falsi mundi,

Liv. 1, 26: sed quo te, M. Tulli, piaculo taceam, i. e. how can I be justified in, etc., Plin. 7, 31, 31, § 116; Macr. S. 3, 10, 7.—

Concr., an animal offered up in sacrifice, a victim: duc nigras pecudes;

ea prima piacula sunto,

Verg. A. 6, 153:

non sperat tragicae furtiva piacula cervae,

i. e. substitution, Juv. 12, 120.— Transf.,

Of persons offered as an expiation, atonement:

(Hannibalem) ad piaculum rupti foederis,

Liv. 21, 10, 12:

ut luendis periculis publicis piacula simus,

id. 10, 28, 13.—

In gen., a remedy, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 36.—

Punishment:

dea a violatoribus (sui templi) gravia piacula exegit,

Liv. 29, 18; Just. 8, 2, 6; Val. Max. 1, 1, 14; Sil. 13, 702.—

Transf., that which requires expiation.

A wicked action, sin, crime; guilt: eo die verberari piaculum est, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15, 10:

palam mutire plebeio piaculum est, Enn. ap. Fest. s. v. mutire, p. 145 Müll. (Trag. v. 376 Vahl.): piaculum est misereri nos hominum rem male gerentum,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 13:

sine piaculo rerum praetermissarum,

Liv. 39, 47:

piaculum committere,

id. 5, 52; Paul. Sent. 1, 21, 4:

commissa piacula,

Verg. A. 6, 569:

solutus piaculo,

Tac. A. 1, 30:

nec sine piaculo quodam sanctissimas necessitudines scindi,

Plin. Pan. 37:

ne terra impleatur piaculo,

Vulg. Lev. 19, 29.—

An unhappy event, a misfortune, Plin. 25, 8, 46, § 84.

pĭācŭlum (sync. collat. form pĭā-clum, Prud. steph. 14, 219), i, n. [pio], a means of appeasing a deity; hence,

Lit.

A sin-offering, propitiatory sacrifiee: [p. 1374] porco piaculo facito, Cato, R. R. 139; 140:

porcc femina piaculum pati,

to bring, Cic. Leg. 2, 22, 57:

piaculum hostia caedi,

Liv. 8, 10:

te piacula nulla resolvent,

Hor. C. 1, 28, 34:

piacula manibus infert,

Ov. M. 6, 569:

falsi mundi,

Liv. 1, 26: sed quo te, M. Tulli, piaculo taceam, i. e. how can I be justified in, etc., Plin. 7, 31, 31, § 116; Macr. S. 3, 10, 7.—

Concr., an animal offered up in sacrifice, a victim: duc nigras pecudes;

ea prima piacula sunto,

Verg. A. 6, 153:

non sperat tragicae furtiva piacula cervae,

i. e. substitution, Juv. 12, 120.— Transf.,

Of persons offered as an expiation, atonement:

(Hannibalem) ad piaculum rupti foederis,

Liv. 21, 10, 12:

ut luendis periculis publicis piacula simus,

id. 10, 28, 13.—

In gen., a remedy, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 36.—

Punishment:

dea a violatoribus (sui templi) gravia piacula exegit,

Liv. 29, 18; Just. 8, 2, 6; Val. Max. 1, 1, 14; Sil. 13, 702.—

Transf., that which requires expiation.

A wicked action, sin, crime; guilt: eo die verberari piaculum est, Fab. Pict. ap. Gell. 10, 15, 10:

palam mutire plebeio piaculum est, Enn. ap. Fest. s. v. mutire, p. 145 Müll. (Trag. v. 376 Vahl.): piaculum est misereri nos hominum rem male gerentum,

Plaut. Truc. 2, 1, 13:

sine piaculo rerum praetermissarum,

Liv. 39, 47:

piaculum committere,

id. 5, 52; Paul. Sent. 1, 21, 4:

commissa piacula,

Verg. A. 6, 569:

solutus piaculo,

Tac. A. 1, 30:

nec sine piaculo quodam sanctissimas necessitudines scindi,

Plin. Pan. 37:

ne terra impleatur piaculo,

Vulg. Lev. 19, 29.—

An unhappy event, a misfortune, Plin. 25, 8, 46, § 84.