complexam
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;
acc. sg. perf. pass. part. - 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;
acc. sg. perf. part.
Examples
Miles Gloriosus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Vidistin istam? Scel. Vidi, et illam et hospitem, complexam atque osculantem. Per. Eanest? Scel. Nescio. Pe. Vin scire..."ad Marciam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...Intraturus es urbem dis hominibus communem, omnia complexam, certis legibus aeternisque deuinctam, indefatigata caelestium officia uoluentem. Videbis illic..."Liber XI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...segniter intendit misitque ut Britannicus et Octavia in complexam patris pergerent. et Vibidiam, virginum Vestalium vetustissimam, oravit pontificis..."