comprehendite
Dictionary entries
- Entry →comprehendo, comprehendere, comprehendi, comprehensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
catch/seize/grasp firmly; arrest; take hold/root/fire, ignite; conceive (baby);; embrace; include/cover/deal with (in speech/law); express (by term/symbol);
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- T
Aulularia
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...posse, si nihil obviam est— dicant: coqui abstulerunt, comprehendite, vincite, verberate, in puteum condite. horum tibi istic nihil..." - A
Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...scite factis versibus cenarum ciborum exquisitas delicias comprehendit. Nam pleraque id genus, quae helluones isti terra et mari..." - L
Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...tunc illa uis uenti circumeuntis quicquid intra se comprehendit cursu suo accendit et leuat in altum..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...habrotono miscet, perfusisque inguinibus meis, viridis urticae fascem comprehendit, omniaque infra umbilicum coepit lenta manu caedere. <. . .> Aniculae quamvis..." - G
Pliny
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE POETIS
"...quae unquam cum Germanis gesta sunt, XX voluminibus comprehendit, itemque "Naturalis Historiae" XXXVII libros absolvit. Periit clade Campaniae..." - T
Liber XXXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...duabus legione urbana est missus. alios <uagos ~comprehendit, alios> iam congregatos pugnando uicit: ex his multi occisi, multi..." - T
Liber XXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quis exire aut emitti posset, praesidium Punicum comprehendit, senatum Campanum ire in castra ad imperatores Romanos iussit..."