caespitis
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;
acc. pl.gen. sg.nom. pl.
Examples
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..."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..."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..."Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...soli, ut nec uirgulta uallo caedendo nec terra caespiti faciendo aut ducendae fossae aliiue ulli operi apta inueniri..."