Latin

Verb

mulcō ‎(present infinitive mulcāre, perfect active mulcāvī, supine mulcātum); first conjugation

1. I beat up, handle roughly.
   • 121 CE, Suetonius, De vita Caesarum I.17

     Vettium pignoribus captis et direpta supellectile male mulcatum ac pro rostris in contione paene discerptum coiecit in carcerem; eodem Nouium quaestorem, quod compellari apud se maiorem potestatem passus esset.

     As for Vettius, after his bond was declared forfeit and his goods seized, he was roughly handled by the populace assembled before the rostra, and all but torn to pieces.

2. (of inanimate things) I damage, injure.

Inflection

See also

• mulceō

References

• mulco in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• mulco in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• Félix Gaffiot (1934), “mulco”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.