aptant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →apto, aptare, aptavi, aptatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
adapt, fit, apply, adjust, accommodate; put on, fasten; prepare, furnish;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
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Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...super eminus hostem tela petant altis murorum turribus aptant. pronior in Magnum populus, pugnatque minaci cum terrore fides..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...posita ab iis qui sermonem primi fecerunt, aptantes adfectibus vocem: nam "mugitus" et "sibilus" et "murmur" inde venerunt..." 
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...pars spicula dextra nequiquam parcente trahunt, pars molliter aptant bracchia trunca loco et ceruicibus ora reponunt. at uaga..."- P
Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...ipsi transtra novant flammisque ambesa reponunt robora navigiis, aptant remosque rudentisque, exigui numero, sed bello vivida virtus. interea..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...securi, instant operibus, adsunt exercitationibus, arma, moenia, viros aptant. Quippe non is princeps, qui sibi imminere, sibi intendi..."