acuant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →acuo, acuere, acui, acutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
whet, sharpen, cut to a point; spur on, provoke, incite; come to a head (PASS);
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- L
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...Aspice qui coeant populi, quae moenia clusis ferrum acuant portis. Magno mihi animo strepitus iste belli circumsonantis exaudiendus..." - L
de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...nobilibus adulescentulis expositum caput, in quod mucrones acuant; non est tanti vita, si, ut ego non peream..." - P
Aeneid VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...aspice qui coeant populi, quae moenia clausis ferrum acuant portis in me excidiumque meorum.' dixerat et niveis hinc..." - T
Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...haec saeviant, in haec ferrum, in haec iras acuant. Quod ad tribunos attinet, consulite utrum praesens deditio eorum..."