attollo
Dictionary entries
- Entry →attollo, attollere, -, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
raise/lift up/towards/to a higher position; erect, build; exalt; extol, exalt;
sg. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
- L
de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...facio me et formo et ad exemplar ingens attollo; si processero quantumcumque proposui, exige ut dictis facta respondeant..." - L
de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...titubat acies, facilius aduersus illam animum quam oculos attollo; recedo itaque non peior, sed tristior, nec inter illa..." - P
Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...trahentem invenio corpusque meo mihi carius ulnis mollibus attollo scissaque a pectore veste vulnera saeva ligo conorque inhibere..." - P
Metamorphoses V
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...praebet iter, subterque imas ablata cavernas hic caput attollo desuetaque sidera cerno. ergo dum Stygio sub terris gurgite..."