Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Immolatus

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

IMMOLA'TUS. Accurately speaking, means sprinkled with flour (mola salsa), in reference to a victim intended for the sacrifice, this being one of the usual ceremonies before it was slain. (Cato ap. Serv. Aen. x. 541.); whence the word came to be used in the less special sense of our term immolated, or killed in sacrifice. Hor. Od. iv. 11. 7.

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