avocarier
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
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..."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..."Liber VIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...comitiorum dies instaret et Publilium imminentem hostium muris avocari ab spe capiendae in dies urbis haud..."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..."