captatos
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;
acc. pl. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...hereditatem uoluit; hic me diu in spem supremam captato criminatus est; hic scortum meum concupiuit: quod uinculum amoris..."Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...ipsaque erat Beroe, Semeles Epidauria nutrix. ergo ubi captato sermone diuque loquendo ad nomen venere Iovis, suspirat..."