contexerant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contego, contegere, contexi, contectus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
cover up, conceal, hide; protect; clothe; roof over; bury/entomb; strew thickly;
pl. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...220mansuram rudibus uocem signare figuris:nondum flumineas Memphis contexere biblosnouerat, et saxis tantum uolucresque feraequesculptaque seruabant magicas animalia..."Satura XIV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...maternos dicere moechos tam cito nec tanto poterit contexere cursu ut non ter deciens respiret? conscia matri uirgo..."Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quaque earum libros ediderunt. Quas ego omnis ausus contexere prope infinitum laborem prospicio et ipsa cogitatione suscepti muneris..."
Liber Secundus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...Thracas qui fuderat armis dux Lemni puppes tenui contexere canna ausus et inducto cratem defendere tergo laeta mari..."
Liber Quintus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...uisu, donec lassauit euntes lux oculos longumque polo contexere uisa est aequor et extremi pressit freta margine caeli..."Liber II
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...remigum, gubernatorum magna copia suppetebat) piscatoriasque adiecerant atque contexerant, ut essent ab ictu telorum remiges tuti; has sagittariis..."