tāctus (ūs), m TAG-, a touching, touch, handling: quae (chordae) ad quemque tactum respondeant: asper Tactu leo, H.: Abstinuit tactu pater, V.

—Prov.: Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum, O.

—The sense of feeling, feeling, touch: tactus toto corpore aequabiliter fusus est: qui . . . non odore ullo, non tactu, non sapore capiatur.

—Fig., influence, effect, operation: solis: lunae tactūs.