absit
absit
Interjection
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Stelten (Ecclesiastical Latin)
- Age:
- Later
- Field:
- Religion
"god forbid", "let it be far from the hearts of the faithful";
Text excerpts
Matching passages for this spelling. Other inflected forms of the same lemma may appear elsewhere; excerpts are not translations.
- T
Liber IV
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...atque colore. et quantum quaeque ab nobis res absit, imago efficit ut videamus et internoscere curat..." - T
Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...bello adflixit ut non modo nobis sed—absit uerbo inuidia—ne posteris quidem timenda nostris esset. deletam urbem..." - L
Octavia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...trepidante semper corde non mortis metu, sed sceleris++absit crimen a fatis meis, mori iuuabit; poena nam grauior..." - P
Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...gloria rerum, quam mentiris' ait, 'longe tibi Iuppiter absit!' vimque minis addit manibusque expellere temptat cunctantem et placidis..." Liber I
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...constet et probetur in me nouissimum ingenium. 3. Absit a iocorum nostrorum simplicitate malignus interpres nec epigrammata..."Liber X
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...omnibus et favete votis; Natalem colimus, tacete lites. Absit cereus aridi clientis, Et vani triplices brevesque mappae Expectent..."- T
Liber II
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...naturam latrare, nisi ut qui corpore seiunctus dolor absit, mente fruatur iucundo sensu cura semota metuque? ergo corpoream..." - D
Satura IV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...rhombi memoraret et annos. 'quidnam igitur censes? conciditur?' 'absit ab illo dedecus hoc' Montanus ait, 'testa alta paretur..."