I. To dung, manure with dung, to muck: “loca,” Varr. R. R. 1, 38; Cic. Sen. 15, 54: “agrum,” Mart. Cap. 3, § 305; Col. 2, 16, 2; Plin. 17, 9, 6, § 50.—
II. To cleanse from dung: “latrinas,” Dig. 7, 1, 15: “stercorata colluvies,” dungheap, Col. 1, 6, 24.—Hence, stercŏ-rātus , a, um, P. a., dunged, mucked, manured: “locus stercoratissimus,” Col. 11, 2, 85; 2, 11, 8.