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..."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..."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..."