spot (subs.) Copy link Outline I. A mark1. măcŭla2. nŏta (mark by which anything may be known)3. lābes, is, f. (blot, stain)II. Exact place • spot (subs.): I. A mark: 1. măcŭla: (a horse) with white s.s. albis m., Virg. Aen. 9, 49: to take s.s (soils) out of clothes, m. auferre de vestibus, Ov. F. 3, 821: to remove freckles and s.s from the face, lentigines ac m. de facie t., Plin. 20, 2, 4. Freq. in fig. sense = stain, disgrace, blot: Cic.: Ter. 2. nŏta (mark by which anything may be known): v. mark. 3. lābes, is, f. (blot, stain): v. stain. Marked with s.s, maculosus: v. spotted. II. Exact place: lŏcus: also in poet. sdes: v. place. Phr.: on the s.: (1.) stătim (cf. Germ. stehendes Fusses): v. immediately. (2.) ĭbīdem (in the very same place): some birds of prey tore it to pieces on the s., volucres (avem) ibidem discerpserunt, Suet. Caes. 81: Cic. Inv. 2, 51, 154. Join: ibidem statim, Suet. Aug. 87.