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
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..."Liber XXXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...gerendae ei defuit; urbanas rusticasque res pariter callebat. ad summos honores alios scientia iuris, alios eloquentia, alios gloria..."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..."