aucupant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →aucupo, aucupare, -, aucupatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
catch, take (swarm of bees); hunt after, seek, be on the lookout for;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Trinummus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...balineis, piscator, pistor apstulit, lanii, coqui, holitores, myropolae, aucupes: confit cito; non hercle minus divorse distrahitur cito, quam..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...vehementer percussit, ex cuius plaga turdi evolaverunt. Parati aucupes cum harundinibus fuerunt, et eos circa triclinium volitantes momento..."