coargui
Dictionary entries
- Entry →coarguo, coarguere, coargui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
refute; show, demonstrate; overwhelm w/proof; silence; convict; prove guilty;
sg. perf. act. ind. 1stpres. pass. infin.
Examples
- L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...ingeritur oculis ueritas, amat et tuetur errorem; coargui non uult, et in male coeptis honestior illi pertinacia uidetur..." - M
XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...contingant. opinione sua defenditur, et, quae res minime coargui potest, utitur se teste. ne nos periremus, non timuisti..." - T
Liber XXXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...calumniae impudentissimae praetendit, quo maxime et refelli et coargui potest. disertissime enim planissimeque in eo scriptum est Chersonesum..." - P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...eius sublevari aut, si qua fuit iniquitas Germanici, coargui possit, vosque oro ne, quia dolori meo causa conexa..."