caespiti
Dictionary entries
- Entry →caespes, caespitis:
Masculine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
grassy ground, grass; earth; sod, turf; altar/rampart/mound of sod/turf/earth;
dat. sg.loc. sg.
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...ducis inpleuit uisus ueneranda uetustas, erexit subitas congestu caespitis aras uotaque turicremos non inrita fudit in ignes..." - M
Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...exiguo nocturna pericula uallo,et subitus rapti munimine caespitis aggerpraebet securos intra tentoria somnos:tu tantum audito bellorum..." - P
Amores III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...quercus, oracula prima, ferebant; haec erat et teneri caespitis herba cibus. prima Ceres docuit turgescere semen in agris..." - T
Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...soli, ut nec uirgulta uallo caedendo nec terra caespiti faciendo aut ducendae fossae aliiue ulli operi apta inueniri..."