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..."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..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...singulos nomine ciens, praemiis vocans, seditionem coeptabat, adeoque commoverat ut signifer legionis sextae signum ad eum transtulerit..."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..."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..."