caducos
Dictionary entries
- Entry →caducus, caduca, caducum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
escheatable, (property) that heir/legatee does/can not take (goes to state);; ready to fall; tottering/unsteady; falling, fallen; doomed; perishable; futile;
acc. pl. (m.)
Examples
Liber VIII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...tritis litoris aridi lapillis, sit moro coma nigrior caduco, uineas mollitia tremente plumas aut massam modo lactis alligati..."- L
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...aeui patiatur incedere, quidni ab hoc exiguo et caduco temporis transitu in illa toto nos demus animo quae..." - P
Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...fatur Olympi: 'si mora praesentis leti tempusque caduco oratur iuveni meque hoc ita ponere sentis, tolle fuga Turnum..."