complectier
Dictionary entries
- Entry →complecto, complectere, complecti, complexus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
embrace, hug; welcome; encircle, encompass; attain; include, bring in, involve;; lay hold of, grip; seize; grasp, take in/up; sum up; include in scope, cover;
pres. pass. infin. - Entry →complector, complecti, complexus sum:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
embrace, hug; welcome; encircle, encompass; attain; include, bring in, involve;; lay hold of, grip; seize; grasp, take in/up; sum up; include in scope, cover;
pres. infin.
Examples
Miles Gloriosus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Pyrg. Quid nunc volt? Mil. Te compellare et complecti et contrectare. nam nisi tu illi fers suppetias..."Curculio
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...video, uterque insaniunt. viden ut misere moliuntur? nequeunt complecti satis. etiam dispertimini? Plan. Nullum homini est perpetuom bonum..."Eumenes
Cornelius Nepos
"...magnis imperiis concupiscunt, omnium partis corripere atque complecti. Neque vero hoc ille solus fecit, sed ceteri quoque omnes..."Epaminondas
Cornelius Nepos
"...currendo et luctando ad eum finem, quoad stans complecti posset atque contendere. In armis vero plurimum studii consumebat..."Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...potuissent. Tranassem ista, non solum traiecissem, dummodo te complecti possem et praesens aestimare quantum animo crevisses. Ceterum quod..."Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...damus et has quas Graeci chrias vocant, quia complecti illas puerilis animus potest, qui plus adhuc non capit..."Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...austro." [16,2] Uel, si breuius illos complecti mauis, in unam tempestatem, quod fieri nullo modo potest, congregentur..."Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...date manus. AD. Salve, insperate nobis pater, te complecti nos sine. ANT. Cupite atque exspectate pater, salve..."
