coniveritis
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;
pl. futperf. act. ind. 2ndpl. perf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Liber VII
Aulus Gellius
"...caelum oculos cogebant. Palpebras quoque eius, ne conivere posset, sursum ac deorsum diductas insuebant." Tuditanus autem somno..."Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...magistratu sunt, potestatibus collata interquiescere paululum et conivere, sed cum extra rempublicam in domestica re atque vita sedeatur..."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..."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..."