avocet
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);
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...regem qui non tulerim, Sicinium feram? Secedat nunc; avocet plebem; patet via in Sacrum montem aliosque colles; rapiant..."Liber I
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...urbis, opportunitas viae, mediocritas villae, modus ruris, qui avocet magis quam distringat. Scholasticis porro dominis..."