cavillaris
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);
sg. pres. ind. 2nd
Examples
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..."Liber III
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...iurastis crastina die armati ad lacum Regillum adsitis.' Cavillari tum tribuni et populum exsolvere religione velle: privatum..."