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..."- P
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..." - G
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..."