să_crĭfĭco (ante-class. collat. form să_-crŭfĭco), āvi, ātum, 1, v. n. and a. (dep. collat. form să_crĭfĭcor, āri, ante-class., Varr. L. L. 6, § 18 Müll.; id. R. R. 2, 8, 1; 2, 11, 5; id. ap. Non. 480, 2 sq.; cf. Gell. 18, 12 fin., and Varr. L. L. 9, § 105 ib.; so, late Lat., sacrificati, Christians who sacrifice to the gods under persecution , Cypr. Ep. 52) [sacer-facio],
I to make or offer a sacrifice , to sacrifice (freq. and class.).
α Neutr. absol. : nunc sacruficabo, Plaut. Rud. 4, 7, 37; 1, 2, 44 sq.; id. Aul. 3, 6, 43; id. Mil. 3, 1, 117; id. Poen. 1, 2, 109; Ter. Phorm. 702: principem in sacrificando Janum esse voluerunt, Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 67; Liv. 25, 1 (repeatedly); 44, 14; Quint. 1, 10, 33; Ov. M. 14, 84 al.; cf.: noctu sacruficatum ire, Plaut. Poen. 1, 2, 107.—With dat.: si sacruficem summo Jovi, etc., Plaut. Ps. 1, 3, 31: alicui deo, id. Am. 3, 3, 28; id. Truc. 2, 4, 69: Herculi sacrificare velle se dixit, Curt. 4, 2, 3.—With abl.: summo Jovi argento, Plaut. Most. 1, 3, 84: Orco hostiis, id. Ep. 2, 1, 7: Junoni reginae majoribus hostiis, Liv. 22, 1, 17; 28, 38, 8; 32, 1, 13; 36, 21, 9; and so without a dat., id. 37, 47, 5; 40, 2, 4; 42, 20, 3.—With pro : pro populo, Liv. 4, 54, 7; 26, 33, 8; Varr. R. R. 2, 8, 1.— Impers. pass. : secundum segetes huic deo sacrificatur, Varr. L. L. 6, 3, 16: pure et caste a matronis sacrificatum, Liv. 27, 37: cui (Angeronae) sacrificatur a. d. XII. Kal. Januar., Plin. 3, 5, 9, § 65; 16, 6, 8, § 24. —
β Act. , Plaut. Stich. 1, 3, 97: ullum turis granum, id. Poen. 2, 3: pecora, Liv. 41, 18: ignavam suem, Ov. F. 4, 414: hoc poculum deis, Varr. L. L. 5, § 122 Müll.: lustra Apollini pro me exercitibusque et classibus, Liv. 45, 41.— Pass. : eo die Junoni mulieres sacrificantur, Varr.L.L. 6, 18: nec duobus nisi certis diis una sacrificari oportere, Val. Max. 1, 1, 8: editi dii quibus sacrificaretur, Liv. 30, 2, 13; 35, 43, 3; 37, 37, 2: in pelliculis sacrificatorum animalium, Plin. 36, 21, 39, § 151.