callebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →calleo, callere, callui, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
be calloused/hardened; grow hard; be experienced/skilled, understand; know how;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- D
Satura IV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...Lucrinum ad saxum Rutupinoue edita fundo ostrea callebat primo deprendere morsu, et semel aspecti litus dicebat echini. surgitur..." - T
Liber XXXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...gerendae ei defuit; urbanas rusticasque res pariter callebat. ad summos honores alios scientia iuris, alios eloquentia, alios gloria..." - P
Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...quaeque deceret principem eloquentia fuit. Tiberius artem quoque callebat, qua verba expenderet, tum validus sensibus aut consulto ambiguus..."