appropinquaret
Dictionary entries
- Entry →appropinquo, appropinquare, appropinquavi, appropinquatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
approach (w/DAT or ad+ACC); come near to, draw near/nigh (space/time); be close;
sg. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- G
Liber II
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...praemissa Massiliam huius nuntii perferendi gratia cum iam appropinquaret urbi, omnis sese multitudo ad cognoscendum effudit..." - T
Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...fabrefactis nauigiis, et propiores terrae erant; itaque priusquam appropinquaret classis Myonnesum perfugerunt, unde se e portu ratus abstracturum..." - T
Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ferme [inde] passus Hasdrubal aberat. itaque cum iam appropinquaret, tectus montibus substitit Nero ne ante noctem castra ingrederetur..." - T
Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...consulesque qui in Samnio erant, cum Beneuento iam appropinquaret, tria milia passuum ab ipsa urbe loco edito castra..."