caligas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →caliga, caligae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Military
soldier's boot; boot; military service;
acc. pl. - Entry →caligo, caligare, caligavi, caligatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
be dark/gloomy/misty/cloudy; have bad vision; cloud; be blinded; be/make dizzy;
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
- D
Satura XVI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...corde Vagelli, cum duo crura habeas, offendere tot caligas, tot milia clauorum. quis tam procul adsit ab urbe..." - L
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...bonorum mercennaria procuratione consenuit? suis opibus distinetur. Marium caliga dimisit? consulatus exercet; Quintius dictaturam properat peruadere? ab aratro..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...porrexit et: "Tanto melior, inquit, Massa, dono tibi caligas". Nec ullus tot malorum finis fuisset, nisi epidipnis esset..." - G
Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...modo in crepidis vel coturnis, modo in speculatoria caliga, nonnumquam socco muliebri; plerumque vero aurea barba, fulmen tenens..."