captantur
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. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...scitote in duas partes esse divisos. Nam aut captantur aut captant. In hac urbe nemo liberos tollit, quia..." - M
X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...tristes penatium morbos vagae errantesque magica sanitate captantur. laqueone vitam damnatus eliserat, noxium per sua viscera exegerat ferrum..." - P
Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...tumet, tepidisque arentia ventis ora patent, auraeque graves captantur hiatu. non stratum, non ulla pati velamina possunt, nuda..."