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
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..."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..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...porrexit et: "Tanto melior, inquit, Massa, dono tibi caligas". Nec ullus tot malorum finis fuisset, nisi epidipnis esset..."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..."