coniveres
Dictionary entries
- Entry →coniveo, conivere, conivi, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
close/screw up the eyes, blink; wink at, overlook, turn a blind eye, connive;; be tightly closed (eyes); (other things); be inactive/eclipsed; lie dormant;
sg. imperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- A
Liber VII
Aulus Gellius
"...caelum oculos cogebant. Palpebras quoque eius, ne conivere posset, sursum ac deorsum diductas insuebant." Tuditanus autem somno..." - A
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...magistratu sunt, potestatibus collata interquiescere paululum et conivere, sed cum extra rempublicam in domestica re atque vita sedeatur..." - G
Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...tanto opere contemneret, ad minima tonitrua et fulgura conivere, caput obvolvere, at vero maiore proripere se e strato..." - M
In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...custos, nullus insidiator viae; si qui exire volunt, conivere possum; qui vero se in urbe commoverit, cuius..."