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
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..."Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...dominabatur. Hinc senatores omissa dignitatis libertatisque memoria plebem adulari; salutare, benigne invitare, apparatis accipere epulis, eas causas suscipere..."
