capream
Dictionary entries
- Entry →caprea, capreae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
roe deer; wild she-goat (L+S);
acc. sg.
Examples
- D
Satura XIV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...facit arbore nidos. sed leporem aut capream famulae Iouis et generosae in saltu uenantur aues, hinc praeda cubili..." Liber XIII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...breve nomen habet. XCVIII (XCIX). Caprea. Pendentem summa capream de rupe videbis: casuram speres; despicit illa canes. XCIX..."- P
Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...suadet enim vesana fames), si forte fugacem conspexit capream aut surgentem in cornua cervum, gaudet hians immane comasque..."