affectamus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →affecto, affectare, affectavi, affectatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
aim at, desire, aspire, try, lay claim to; try to control; feign, pretend;
pl. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...supervacua non essent. Hoc itaque in his quae affectamus, ad quae labore magno contendimus, inspicere debemus, aut nihil..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...multa effugisti, te nondum! Virtus enim ista, quam affectamus, magnifica est non quia per se beatum est malo..."