conplexu
Dictionary entries
- Entry →conplecto, conplectere, conplecti, conplexus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- 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;
abl. sg. - Entry →conplexus, conplexus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
surrounding, encompassing, encircling; clasp, grasp, hold, embrace; inclusion;; sexual intercourse (w/Venerius/femineus); hand-to-hand fighting; stranglehold;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...fecit monstra fides. inter mensasque torosque 245quae modo conplexu fouerunt pectora caedunt;et quamuis primo ferrum strinxere gementes..."VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...pereunte fecerunt, hoc corpus, haec membra, quae de conplexu latronis vulnera nulla retulerunt. sive hoc poenam sive vultis..."IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...quam mortem. explica nos, pater, tam misero tristique conplexu et longissimas sollicitudines brevi recide patientia; minus indignum..."I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...Iratus igitur senex tenet iuvenem suum velut interiore conplexu et a limine obstat? Rogo, quod duos separat media..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...ramos, crescendo iungi pariterque adolescere cernit, sic ubi conplexu coierunt membra tenaci, nec duo sunt et forma duplex..."
