cavillari
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);
pres. infin.
Examples
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Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quaestiones fortuna tibi posuit, nondum illas solvisti: iam cavillaris? Quam stultum est, cum signum pugnae acceperis, ventilare. Remove..." - T
Liber III
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...iurastis crastina die armati ad lacum Regillum adsitis.' Cavillari tum tribuni et populum exsolvere religione velle: privatum..."