adulari
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adulor, adulari, adulatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fawn upon (as a dog); flatter (in a servile manner), court; make obeisance (to);
pres. infin. - Entry →adulo, adulare, adulavi, adulatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
fawn upon (as a dog); flatter (in a servile manner), court; make obeisance (to);
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...invidia et invocatione intendere crimen, quod est deinosis, adulari, ignoscere, fastidire, admonere, satisfacere, precari, corripere figuras putat..." - T
Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...dominabatur. Hinc senatores omissa dignitatis libertatisque memoria plebem adulari; salutare, benigne invitare, apparatis accipere epulis, eas causas suscipere..."