captamus
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. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
- T
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...palaestrico hoc habemus; echinos, lopadas, ostreas, balanos captamus, conchas, marinam urticam, musculos, plagusias striatas; post id piscatum hamatilem..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...partibus convenit, ita tamen temperanda ne, dum actoris captamus elegantiam, perdamus viri boni et gravis auctoritatem..." - M
XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...uterum famem sentiunt. iam nemo dives est. auras captamus et rore vescimur, et iam spirare tormentum est. cotidie..."