I.to spot, stain, pollute, defile on all sides (rare but class.).
I. Lit.: “sanguine manus,” Verg. E. 8, 48: “sanguine suo altaria deūm,” Tac. A. 1, 39: “commaculatus sanguine,” Paul. Nol. 6, 164.—
II. Trop.: se isto infinito ambitu, * Cic. Cael. 7, 16: “se cum Jugurthā miscendo,” Sall. J. 102, 5: “pia templa domosque occursu,” Stat. Th. 11, 752: “se consortiis aliquorum, Cod. Th. 3, 12, 3: vidnitatem stupri procacitate,” ib. 3, 16, 2: “flagitiis commaculatus,” Tac. A. 16, 32: “nam praeter satellites commaculatos quis eadem volt?” Sall. H. 1, 41, 21 Dietscn.
