cavillantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cavillor, cavillari, cavillatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
jest, banter; make fun of, satirize, mock; use sophistry, quibble, cavil (at);
pl. pres. ind. 3rd
Examples
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Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...scripta clarum habentium nomen exanguia sunt. Instituunt, disputant, cavillantur, non faciunt animum quia non habent: cum legeris Sextium..." - M
Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...ferendi qui hanc artem ut tenuem atque ieiunam cavillantur. Quae nisi oratoris futuri fundamenta fideliter iecit, quidquid superstruxeris..."