anciller
Dictionary entries
- Entry →ancillor, ancillari, ancillatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
act as handmaid, wait on, serve hand and foot; be subservient/at beck and call;
sg. pres. subj. 1st
Examples
- A
Liber V
Aulus Gellius
"...Ipse Quirinali lituo parvaque sedebat subcinctus trabea laevaque ancile gerebat. In his versibus errasse Hyginus Vergilium scripsit, tamquam..." - P
Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...ipse Quirinali lituo parvaque sedebat succinctus trabea laevaque ancile gerebat Picus, equum domitor, quem capta cupidine coniunx aurea..."