certative
Dictionary entries
- Entry →certative:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
combatively; in order to stir up strife;
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...unum contumax fui, ne beneficiis uincerer." Certate, obsecro uos, et fessi quoque restituite aciem. Felices, qui uincent, felices..."Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...timens astra dum demens petit artibus fisus nouis certat et ueras aues uincere ac falsis nimis imperat pinnis..."IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...pauperem, si te amaret. inserit se et beneficiis certat. noras adulescentem omnia ultro praestantem, et sic me amabat..."
Liber Tertius
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...pueri spes lusa modo est nec tendere certat amplius; utque artus et concita pectora sudor diluerat, gratos avidus..."
Liber Septimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...utraque cum sua Centaurus moriens in terga recumbit. certat opus ferri: sternunt alterna furentes Hippomedon Sybarin, Pylium Periphanta..."Liber Quintus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...conamine uires. instamus iactu telorum, et ferrea nimbis certat hiems, ustaeque sudes fractique molares spiculaque et multa crinitum..."Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from ACHILLEID
"...novat currus, Nemee dat terga ferarum, Cirrha sagittiferas certat stipare pharetras, Lerna gravis clipeos caesis vestire iuvencis..."Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...hostis inter et arma fuga muros tenet, altaque certat prendere tecta manu sociumque attingere dextras. quem Turnus pariter..."