affligit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →affligo, affligere, afflixi, afflictus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
overthrow/throw down; afflict, damage, crush, break, ruin; humble, weaken, vex;
sg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
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Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...malum. nam quotiens futuit, totiens ulciscitur ambos: illam affligit odore, ipse perit podagra. LXXII. ad Lesbiam Dicebas quondam..." - G
Liber VII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...haec non novissima occiderit? Me quidem illud etiam affligit et torquet, quod matrem eius, illam — nihil possum illustrius..."
