affligite
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;
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
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..."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..."
