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
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...palaestrico hoc habemus; echinos, lopadas, ostreas, balanos captamus, conchas, marinam urticam, musculos, plagusias striatas; post id piscatum hamatilem..."Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...partibus convenit, ita tamen temperanda ne, dum actoris captamus elegantiam, perdamus viri boni et gravis auctoritatem..."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..."