I.to soil, defile, pollute.
I. Lit. (very rare): “ore dapes,” Verg. A. 3, 234: “ora cruore,” Ov. M. 15, 98: “pollui cuncta sanie, odore, contactu,” Tac. A. 4, 49: “usu tegmina,” id. ib. 13, 57: “vina deciduo immundiore lapsu,” Plin. 14, 19, 23, § 119: “polluta mensa cruore,” Sil. 7, 183.—
II. Trop.
A. In gen., to defile morally, to pollute, contaminate, violate, dishonor, desecrate, etc. (class.; “syn.: inquino, contamino): polluta et violata sacra,” Cic. Verr. 2, 5, 72, § 187; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 26, 71: “deorum hominumque jura inexpiabili scelere,” id. Phil. 11, 12, 29: “fratris filiam incesto,” Plin. Ep. 4, 11, 6: “tragico pollutus concubitu,” Juv. 2, 29: “famam domūs stupro turpi,” Phaedr. 3, 10, 17: “nec Electrae jugulo se polluit,” Juv. 8, 218: “mentem suam et aures hominum nefariā voce,” Tac. A. 3, 50: incestis se matrimoniis, Mos. et Rom. Leg. Coll. 6, 4, 3: jejunia, to violate, break, Nigid. ap. Isid. Orig. 20, 2: “Jovem,” to insult, Prop. 4 (5), 9, 8. ferias, to desecrate (by labor), Gell. 2, 28, 3: “avaritia invadit, polluit, vastat omnia,” Sall. J. 41, 9; Ov. M. 2, 794: “polluta pax,” Verg. A. 7, 467: “polluendam perdendamque rempublicam relinquere,” Tac. H. 2, 76: “ferias,” Macr. S. 1, 16, 11.—Esp., in eccl. Lat., to render unclean, in a ceremonial sense, Vulg. Lev. 7, 21; pass., to be unclean, id. ib. 11, 27; “15, 32: pollutum et mundum,” id. ib. 10, 10: pollutum comedit, id. Osee, 9, 3.—
B. In partic., to violate, dishonor a woman (post-Aug.), Tac. A. 12, 46; id. Agr. 31; Vulg. Ezech. 18, 11.—Hence, pollū-tus , a, um, P. a., polluted, i. e. no longer virgin, then vicious, unchaste, Cat. 60, 46: “femina,” Liv. 10, 23, 10: “princeps,” Tac. H. 2, 37 fin.: “scelesta pollutaque femina,” App. M. 10, 34.—Comp.: “senectus,” more vicious, more sinful, Sil. 11, 47.—Sup.: “dives,” App. M. 9, p. 234, 31.
