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|lshtext=<b>incestus</b>: a, um, adj. 2. in-[[castus]],<br /><b>I</b> [[unclean]] (in a [[moral]] and [[religious]] [[sense]]), [[impure]], [[polluted]], [[defiled]], [[sinful]], [[criminal]] (as an adj. [[mostly]] [[poet]]. and in [[post]]-Aug. [[prose]]).<br /><b>I</b> In gen.: cum verborum contumeliis optimum virum [[incesto]] [[ore]] lacerasset, Cic. Phil. 11, 2, 5: [[saepe]] [[Diespiter]] Neglectus [[incesto]] addidit integrum, punished the [[good]] [[with]] the [[bad]], Hor. C. 3, 2, 30: catervae Incestarum avium, [[that]] [[feed]] on corpses, Stat. Th. 9, 27: profana [[illic]] omnia, quae [[apud]] nos sacra: rursum concessa [[apud]] illos, quae [[apud]] nos incesta, Tac. H. 5, 4: an [[triste]] [[bidental]] Moverit [[incestus]], [[impious]], Hor. A. P. 472. —<br /><b>II</b> In partic., [[unchaste]], [[lewd]], [[incestuous]].<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> Adj.: [[Ilion]] Fatalis incestusque judex ... vertit In pulverem, i. e. [[Paris]], Hor. C. 3, 3, 19; called also: [[praedo]], Stat. Ach. 1, 45: [[princeps]], Plin. [[Pan]]. 52, 3: amores, Hor. C. 3, 6, 23; Tac. A. 12, 4: [[nuptiae]], id. ib. 11, 25 fin.; cf. conjugia, Suet. Claud. 26: noctes, Plin. [[Pan]]. 63, 7: voces, Ov. Tr. 2, 503: pellicere aliquem [[incesto]] sermone, Liv. 8, 28, 3: [[incestus]] [[manus]] [[intra]] terminos sacratos inferre, id. 45, 5, 7: [[corruptor]] et [[idem]] [[incestus]], Juv. 4, 9. — Hence,<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> Substt.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [[incestum]], i, n., [[unchastity]], [[lewdness]]; esp. as a [[violation]] of [[religious]] laws, [[incest]] ([[class]].): [[incestum]] pontifices [[supremo]] supplicio sanciunto, Cic. Leg. 2, 9, 22: concubuit cum viro ... fecit [[igitur]] [[incestum]], id. Inv. 1, 40, 73. committere, Quint. 4, 2, 88; Dig. 23, 2, 39: ex [[incesto]], [[quod]] [[Augustus]] cum Julia [[filia]] admisisset, Suet. Calig. 23; cf.: incesti cum sorore [[reus]], id. Ner. 5: cum [[filia]] [[commissum]], Quint. 5, 10, 19: [[incesto]] liberatus, Cic. Pis. 39, 95: incesti damnata, Quint. 7, 8, 3: ab [[incesto]] id ei [[loco]] [[nomen]] [[factum]], Liv. 8, 15, 8: incesti [[poena]] ... in viro in insulam [[deportatio]] est, Paul. Sent. 2, 26, 15. — In plur.: stupra ... et adulteria, incesta [[denique]], Cic. Tusc. 4, 35, 75: [[super]] sororum incesta, Suet. Calig. 36: Vestalium virginum, id. Dom. 8.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; incesta, ae, f., an [[incestuous]] [[woman]], [[paramour]]: hunc (adamanta) dedit [[olim]] [[barbarus]] incestae, Juv. 6, 158.— Adv.: incestē (incastē, Sen. Contr. 2, 13).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen., [[impurely]], [[sinfully]], Lucr. 1, 98: facere [[sacrificium]] Dianae, Liv. 1, 45, 6.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> In partic., unchastely: [[ideo]] aquam adduxi, ut ea tu [[inceste]] uterere? Cic. Cael. 14, 34: libidinatum, Suet. Ner. 28: agit incestius res suas, Arn. 5, 170.<br /><b>incestus</b>: ūs, m. 1. [[incestus]], II.,<br /><b>I</b> [[unchastity]], [[incest]] ([[mostly]] Ciceron.): [[quaestio]] de incestu, Cic. Mil. 22, 59; id. Brut. 32, 122; 124; id. N. D. 3, 30, 74 Klotz; Liv. 4, 44 Weissenb.; Val. Max. 6, 3, 7.

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