adligat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adligo, adligare, adligavi, adligatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bind/fetter (to); bandage; hinder, impede, detain; accuse; implicate/involve in;
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Eunuchus
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...prohibebo inquam. GN. audin tu? hic furti se adligat: sat[is] hoc tibist. THR. idem..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...ordinanda res, quae maxime humanam societatem adligat; danda lex uitae, ne sub specie benignitatis inconsulta facilitas placeat..."
Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...manibus permittere gentes, Iuppiter aeque, uelis, quas Doricus adligat undis Isthmos et alterno quas margine summouet infra..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...sustinet ales sublimemque rapit: pendens caput illa pedesque adligat et cauda spatiantes inplicat alas; utve solent hederae longos..."