captabitis
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. fut. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
Epidicus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...fuit, obviam ornatae occurrebant suis quaeque amatoribus, eos captabant. id adeo qui maxime animum advorterim? pleraeque..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...ultima fame, nec quicquam aliud in hac epulatione captabant, nisi tantum ne esurirent. Cum esset Numantia a Scipione..."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..."Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...silentio facto pluribus locis aure admota sonitum fodientium captabant. Quem ubi acceperunt, aperiunt rectam in cuniculum uiam..."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..."