attingebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →attingo, attingere, attigi, attactus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
touch, touch/border on; reach, arrive at, achieve; mention briefly; belong to;; wipe/smear on?;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber II
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...suaque omnia sine mora dediderunt. Eorum fines Nervii attingebant. Quorum de natura moribusque Caesar cum quaereret, sic reperiebat..."Liber XXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Manlius dixit, quamquam patrum quoque plerosque captiui cognatione attingebant, praeter exemplum ciuitatis minime in captiuos iam inde antiquitus..."