arant
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;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Larisa potens; ubi nobile quondam 355nunc super Argos arant, ueteres ubi fabula Thebasmonstrat Echionias, ubi quondam Pentheos exulcolla..." - M
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...arentem Meroen Cancrique sub axe,qua nudi Garamantes arant, sedere, sed interstagnantem Sicorim et rapidum deprensus Hiberum 335spectat..." 
Liber Quintus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...umbra uestit Athos nemorumque obscurat imagine pontum; Thraces arant contra, Thracum fatalia nobis litora, et inde nefas. florebat..."- P
Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Labici; qui saltus, Tiberine, tuos sacrumque Numici litus arant Rutulosque exercent vomere collis Circaeumque iugum, quis Iuppiter Anxurus..." - P
Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Terra procul vastis colitur Mauortia campis (Thraces arant) acri quondam regnata Lycurgo, hospitium antiquum Troiae sociique penates..." - G
BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...optumum quemque a minus bono transfertur. Quae homines arant, navigant, aedificant, virtuti omnia parent. Sed multi mortales, dediti..."