commoverat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →commoveo, commovere, commovi, commotus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
shake/stir up, agitate; displace, disturb, trouble/worry, upset; jolt; excite;; waken; provoke; move (money/camp); produce; cause, start (war); raise (point);
sg. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber Quintus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...candida certam nox Helicen. iam prora fretum commoverat et iam puppe sedes < . . > dimiserat ancora terras. Inde premente noto..."- P
Liber VI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...existeret. igitur Thrasullus isdem rupibus inductus postquam percontantem commoverat, imperium ipsi et futura sollerter patefaciens, interrogatur an suam..." - P
Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...singulos nomine ciens, praemiis vocans, seditionem coeptabat, adeoque commoverat ut signifer legionis sextae signum ad eum transtulerit..." - P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...laudibus ferrent. hanc sui famam ea statim contione commoverat, qua recitatis Vespasiani epistulis non ut plerique incerta disseruit..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...comitiorum, si principem cogitares, iamque se omnis turba commoverat, quum tu, mirantibus cunctis, accedis ad consulis sellam: adigendum..."