adflictare
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adflicto, adflictare, adflictavi, adflictatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
shatter, damage, strike repeatedly, buffet, wreck; oppress, afflict; vex;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
- T
Miles Gloriosus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Lamentari ait illam, miseram cruciari et lacrimantem se adflictare, quia tis egeat, quia te careat..." - G
BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...quibus rei publicae magnitudine belli timor insolitus incesserat, adflictare sese, manus supplicis ad caelum tendere, miserari parvos liberos..."
