Maculôsus, pen. prod. Adiectiuum. Cic.Speckled: spottie: sull of spottes: wicleane: foule: dishonest. Maculosus.Virg.Marked: speckled.Maculosa cutis. Plin. A speckled or spotted skinne.Litera maculosa suffasas habet lituras.Ouid.Maculosa myrrha. Mart. Notis grandibus maculosus. Virgil. Full of great spottes or markes.Vellere maculoso velat corpus.Ouid. Maculosus homo, per translationem. Cice. A dishonest man greatly distained with infamie.Auaritia & libidine fœdus & maculosus. Tacir. Foule and silthily distained with couetousuesse and leatherie.Dedecore maculosus.Tacit. Nefas maculosum. Hora.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
măcŭlōsus, a, um, adj. [id.], full of spots, spotted, speckled, dappled, mottled, variegated. I.Lit.A. In gen. (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): maculosae tegmine lyncis, Verg. A. 1, 323: color, Col. 6, 37, 6: marmor, Plin. 36, 6, 5, 44: luna, id. 2, 9, 6, 46: corium,
variegated, striped
, Plaut. Bacch. 3, 3, 30.—B. In partic., in a bad sense, spotted, blotted, stained, defiled: vestis Pompeii non multa, eaque maculosa, Cic. Phil. 2, 29, 73: maculosae sanguine harenae, Ov. A. A. 3, 395: litora suffusas quod habet maculosa lituras, id. Tr. 3, 1, 15. —II.Trop., defiled, polluted, filthy: senatores,
in bad repute
, Cic. Att. 1, 16, 3: maculosas commodat aedes, Juv. 7, 40: vir omni dedecore, Tac. H. 3, 38: avaritia et libidine foedus ac maculosus, id. H. 1, 7: adulescentia, Aur. Vict. Caes. 11: nefas,
unnatural, abominable
, Hor. C. 4, 5, 22.— Comp.: maculosiora quam nutricis pallium, Front. de Or. 3 Mai.