capro
Dictionary entries
- Entry →caper, capri:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
he-goat, billy-goat; goatish/armpit smell; star in Auriga (L+S); grunting fish;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
Liber IX
Aulus Gellius
"...potum pastas age, Tityre, et inter agendum occursare capro, cornu ferit ille, caveto. XII. Et quoniam de transferendis..."Ecloga IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...potum pastas age, Tityre, et inter agendum occursare capro (cornu ferit ille) caueto." Moeris Immo haec quae Varo..."Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...oris tendere vesicam solet aut derepta bicorni terga capro; tumor ille loci permansit et alti collis habet speciem..."Metamorphoses V
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...cornibus Ammon; Delius in corvo, proles Semeleia capro, fele soror Phoebi, nivea Saturnia vacca, pisce Venus latuit, Cyllenius..."