mulcto

mulco (‡ mulcto, Inscr. Grut. 155, 1), āvi, ātum, 1 (mulcassitis, for mulcaveritis, Plaut. Mil. 2, 2, 8), v. a. [Sanscr. root marc, take hold of; of. Gr. marptô, perh. morphê], to beat, cudgel; to maltreat, handle roughly, injure (class.; syn.: verbero, tundo, pulso).

I.

Lit.:

ipsum dominum atque omnem famibam Mulcavit usque ad mortem,

Ter. Ad 1, 2, 9; Petr. S. 134:

aliquem,

to illtreat, Plaut. Most. 4, 2, 23:

male mulcati clavis ac fustibus repelluntur,

Cic. Verr. 2, 4, 43, § 94:

mulcato corpore,

with bodies bruised, Tac. A. 1, 70:

prostratos verberibus,

id. ib. 32.—Of inanimate things:

naves,

to injure, damage, Liv. 28, 30, 12.—

II.

Trop.:

scriptores illos male mulcatos, exisse cum Galbā,

Cic. Brut. 22, 88 (but in Plaut. Stich. 3, 1, 8, mulcaverim is undoubtedly corrupt, v. Ritschl ad h. l.).