polluctum

pollūcĕo, xi, ctum, 2, v. a. [old prep. port = Gr. proti, pros, and liceor; root licof linquo; Gr. leipô; cf. licet].

I.

Lit., in relig. lang., to place upon the altar as a sacrifice to the deity, to offer, offer up:

Jovi dapali culignam vini quantumvis polluceto... cum pollucere oportebit, sic facies, etc.,

Cato, R. R. 132: polluxi tibi iam publicando epulo Herculis decumas, Naev. ap. Prisc. p. 874 P. (Com. Rel. p. 9 Rib.):

decumam partem Herculi,

Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 80: pisces, Cass. Hem. ap. Plin. 32, 2, 10, § 20:

pollucere merces (quas cuivis deo) liceat, sunt far, polenta, vinum, panis fermentalis, ficus passa, suilla, bubula, agnina, casei, ovilla, alica, sesama et oleum, pisces quibus est squama praeter scarum: Herculi autem omnia esculenta, potulenta,

Fest. p. 253 Müll.—

II.

Transf.

A.

To serve up as a dish: non ego sum pollucta pago, I am no dish for the village (like the Engl. saying, I am meat for your master ), Plaut. Rud. 2, 4, 11.—

B.

To entertain, to treal with a thing (ante- and post-class.).

* 1.

Lit., jocosely:

polluctus virgis servus,

Plaut. Curc. 1, 3, 37.—

* 2.

Trop., to cause to share in or partake of, Arn. 5, 164.—Hence,

A.

pol-luctum, i, n., the thing offered, an offering; also, a sacrificial banquet:

polluctum quod a porricendo est fictum. Cum enim ex mercibus libamenta porrecta sunt Herculi in aram, tum polluctum est,

Varr. L. L. 6, § 54 Müll.: ad polluctum emere, Cass. Hem. ap. Plin. 32, 2, 10, § 20:

polluctum Herculis,

Macr. S. 2, 12 fin.; Plaut. Rud. 5, 3, 63.—

B.

polluctē, adv., with rich offerings, sumptuously, magnificently: pollucte prodigus, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Fest. s. v. prodegeris, p. 229 Müll. (dub.).