citabat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cito, citare, citavi, citatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
urge on, encourage; promote, excite; summon; set in motion; move (bowels); cite;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...coniunx eris; prohibetur undis', meque complexu ferens gressum citabat. non tenent undae Herculem: 'infide uector' inquit, 'immixti licet..."Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...seruilem comitatum et praeconem qui reum ex Rostris citabat, quisquam esset. Scipio non in Capitolio modo..."