agens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →agens, agentis:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
advocate, pleader; secret police (pl.) (frumentarii/curiosi); land surveyors;
nom. sg.voc. sg. - Entry →agens, (gen.), agentis:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
efficient, effective, powerful;
acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (all)voc. sg. (all) - Entry →ago, agere, egi, actus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
drive/urge/conduct/act; spend (time w/cum); thank (w/gratias); deliver (speech);
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...stare loco. qui uolnera ferrentiam derant, et nimbus agens tot tela peribat.tum piceos uoluunt inmissae lampades ignes, 135tum..."Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...merito rubeant ignesque profundant. hasce igitur cum ventus agens contrusit in unum compressitque locum cogens, expressa profundunt semina..."Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...templa, sive aliunde fluens alicunde extrinsecus aër versat agens ignis, sive ipsi serpere possunt, quo cuiusque cibus vocat..."Liber IV
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...nostrum; quippe etenim ventus subtili corpore tenvis trudit agens magnam magno molimine navem et manus una regit quanto..."Liber III
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...mirum quia vis morbi distracta per artus turbat agens animam, spumans [ut] in aequore salso ventorum validis fervescunt..."Liber XVI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...magnitudini addixit, eloquentiam velut umbram non hoc agens trahit. Non erunt sine dubio singula circumspecta..."Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quidem et argentum et propter ista numquam pacem agens ferrum, quasi male nobis committerentur, abscondit. Nos in lucem..."Liber VIII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...deserta petens dispendia siluaecornipedem exhaustum cursu stimulisque negantemMagnus agens incerta fugae uestigia turbatinplicitasque errore uias. pauet ille fragorem..."
