captabant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →capto, captare, captavi, captatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
try/long/aim for, desire; entice; hunt legacy; try to catch/grasp/seize/reach;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Epidicus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...fuit, obviam ornatae occurrebant suis quaeque amatoribus, eos captabant. id adeo qui maxime animum advorterim? pleraeque..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...ultima fame, nec quicquam aliud in hac epulatione captabant, nisi tantum ne esurirent. Cum esset Numantia a Scipione..." - G
Divus Vespasianus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...eaque momenta domestici ad aliquid petendum magno opere captabant. XXII. Et super cenam autem et semper alias comissimus..." - T
Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...silentio facto pluribus locis aure admota sonitum fodientium captabant. Quem ubi acceperunt, aperiunt rectam in cuniculum uiam..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...principes interest, qui beneficiis suis commendationem ex difficultate captabant, gratioresque accipientibus honores arbitrabantur, si prius illos desperatio..."