avocari
Dictionary entries
- Entry →avoco, avocare, avocavi, avocatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
call/summon away; dissuade, divert, distract; remove, take away (property);
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
- L
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...dantem. Animum enim cogo sibi intentum esse nec avocari ad externa; omnia licet foris resonent, dum intus nihil..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...intellegentiae suae lumen, sed multis eum frequenter cogitationibus avocari, nisi tam clara fuerint quae dicemus ut in animum..." - T
Liber VIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...comitiorum dies instaret et Publilium imminentem hostium muris avocari ab spe capiendae in dies urbis haud..." - G
Liber I
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...solebas, intentione rei familiaris obeundae crebris excursionibus avocaris? Si possident, felix beatusque es; si minus, 'unus e multis..."