apprehendit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →apprehendo, apprehendere, apprehendi, apprehensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
seize (upon), grasp, cling to, lay hold of; apprehend; embrace; overtake;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rdsg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...leues truncos frondesque in lacu sparsas pinguis umor apprehendit ac uinxit. [25,10] Itaque etiam..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...rerum natura, quantum in nutrimentum sui satis sit, apprehendit, mundus autem, quantum in aeternum desiderabat, inuasit. Pusillum tibi..."Liber I
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...insidiosae interrogationis involveram. Nunc ergo conscientia exterritus apprehendit Caecilium Celerem, mox Fabium Iustum; rogat ut me sibi reconcilient..."