arabas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →aro, arare, aravi, aratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
plow, till, cultivate; produce by plowing, grow; furrow, wrinkle;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
- L
Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...figere et mundo tua signa primo: cinnami siluis Arabas beatos uidit et uersas equitis sagittas, terga fallacis metuenda..." 
Liber Sextus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...Bacchum hac quoque turiferos, felicia regna, Sabaeos, hac Arabas fudisse manu, mox rumperet Hebri cum vada Thyrsagetas gelida..."- P
Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...intercepta neci est latosque vagata per agros palmiferos Arabas Panchaeaque rura relinquit perque novem erravit redeuntis cornua lunae..." - T
Liber XLV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...prope inmenso spatio imperium fuerat, suae dicionis fecit; Arabas hinc Indiamque, qua terrarum ultumos finis rubrum mare amplectitur..."