captabat
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;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber Octavus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...cohors; alto castrorum ex aggere Adrastus laetificos tenui captabat corde tumultus, quamquam aeger senio, sed agit miseranda potestas..."Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...pericla, ore renidenti modo, quas vaga moverat aura, captabat plumas, flavam modo pollice ceram mollibat lusuque suo mirabile..."Liber IV
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...hominis loquebantur - foeda et insolita parentibus indulgentiae simulatione captabat. Incredibile, sed Regulum cogita. Amissum tamen luget insane. Habebat..."