aratos
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;
acc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
- L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...utrimque solem cinxit talis effigies, tempestas, si Arato credimus, surgit. [14,1] Tempus est alios quoque ignes percurrere..." - P
Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...animos. galea tum sumit aena vipereos dentes et aratos spargit in agros. semina mollit humus valido praetincta veneno..." - T
Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...seueritate libidini regiae fecisse; uni etiam principi Achaeorum Arato adempta uxor nomine Polycratia ac spe regiarum nuptiarum..."