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
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..."Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...fabrefactis nauigiis, et propiores terrae erant; itaque priusquam appropinquaret classis Myonnesum perfugerunt, unde se e portu ratus abstracturum..."Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ferme [inde] passus Hasdrubal aberat. itaque cum iam appropinquaret, tectus montibus substitit Nero ne ante noctem castra ingrederetur..."Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...consulesque qui in Samnio erant, cum Beneuento iam appropinquaret, tria milia passuum ab ipsa urbe loco edito castra..."