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|lshtext=<b>pecco</b>: āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and<br /><b>I</b> a. [[often]] referred to Sanscr. pāpa, pāpaka, [[wicked]]; [[but]] [[better]] to [[root]] pik-, to be [[angry]]; cf.: [[piget]], [[pigeo]], and Fick, Vergl. Wört. 632], to [[miss]] or [[mistake]] [[any]] [[thing]]; to do [[amiss]], to [[transgress]], to [[commit]] a [[fault]], to [[offend]], [[sin]]: peccare est [[tamquam]] transilire lineas, Cic. Par. 3, 1, 20: [[alius]] [[magis]] [[alio]] vel peccat vel recte facit, id. Fin. 3, 14, 48; id. Or. 47, 157: peccare [[largiter]], to [[make]] a [[great]] [[mistake]], Plaut. Most. 2, 2, 8; id. Ep. 3, 4, 53.—With acc.: si unam peccavisses syllabam, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 29: aliquid, to [[offend]] in [[any]] [[respect]]: plura in aliquā re, Ter. Ad. 1, 2, 44: [[Empedocles]] [[multa]] [[alia]] peccat, Cic. N. D. 1, 12, 29: [[eadem]] [[fere]], id. ib. 1, 12, 31: talia peccandi jam mihi [[finis]] erit, Ov. P. 3, 7, 10.—With in and acc.: si [[quid]] in te peccavi . . . in me ipsum peccavi vehementius, Cic. Att. 3, 15, 4: in rem publicam, id. ib. 7, 1, 3 (al. in re publicā).—With [[erga]] aliquem, Plaut. Aul. 4, 10, 62.—In [[aliquo]] or in aliquā re: [[quod]] in eo (Valerio) peccandi Germanis [[causa]] non esset, Caes. B. G. 1, 47: in [[servo]] necando [[semel]] peccatur, Cic. Par. 3, 2, 25: in hoc [[eodem]] peccat [[Hieronymus]], id. Fin. 2, 10, 32: non [[modo]] in vitā sed saepissime et in poëmatis et in oratione peccatur, id. Or. 21, 70.—With abl. [[alone]]: et pecuniā et mollibus consultis, Tac. A. 1, 40: libidine, Juv. 6, 135.—With dat. of [[person]] ([[late]] Lat.): Domino, Vulg. Deut. 1, 41; id. 2 Reg. 12, 13.—De aliquă re, Caecil. ap. Gell. 2, 23, 13.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic., of [[sexual]] [[sin]]: [[quid]] [[inter]]-Est in matronā, ancillā, peccesve togatā? Hor. S. 1, 2, 63; Ov. H. 16, 295; Mart. 1, 35, 2.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf., of animals and inanim. things, to [[fail]], [[miscarry]]: ne Peccet ([[equus]]) ad extremum ridendus, Hor. Ep. 1, 1, 9: [[unus]] de toto peccaverat orbe comarum Anulus, Mart. 2, 66, 1: si senseris vina peccatura, Pall. 11, 14.—Hence, [[peccans]], antis, P. a., [[sinful]], [[full]] of [[sin]]: [[unus]] [[dies]] [[bene]] [[actus]] peccanti immortalitati anteponendus, Cic. Tusc. 5, 2, 5.— Comp.: peccantius, [[more]] [[faulty]], [[worse]], Cael. Aur. Acut. 3, 8, 88.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> As subst.: [[peccans]], antis, comm., an [[offender]], [[sinner]]: non prodest latere peccantibus. Sen. Ep. 97, 13: peccantium [[poena]], id. ib. 97, 14: ad [[officium]] peccantes redire cogeret, Nep. Ages. 5, 3.—Adv.: [[peccanter]], [[wrongly]], [[incorrectly]], [[falsely]], Cael. Aur. Acut. 2, 9, 40: definire aliquid, id. ib. 3, 1, 5.