contingi
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contingo, contingere, contigi, contactus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
touch; reach (to); border on, be connected with; affect, hit; take hold, seize;; color/stain; lay hands on, appropriate; smite; affect emotionally, move/touch;; happen, befall, turn out, come to pass, be granted to one; be produced;; it happens, it turns out; (PERF) it came to pass;
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...terramet, desit si larga Ceres, tunc horrida cernifoedaque contingi maculato attingere morsu.nec pauet hic populus pro libertate subireobsessum..."Satura VIII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...alto de sanguine rarus ciuis et egregius patriae contingis ouanti, exclamare libet populus quod clamat Osiri inuento. quis..."Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...praestabat castas humilis fortuna Latinas quondam, nec uitiis contingi parua sinebant tecta labor somnique breues et uellere Tusco..."de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...incidisse aut demissis in profundum catenis Neptunum potuisse contingi? Vt caelestia humanas manus effugiunt..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...quare nec talis dignantur visere coetus, nec se contingi patiuntur lumine claro. + LXV. ad Ortalum Etsi me assiduo..."Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...bone—nam te scire, deos quoniam propius contingis oportet—, numquid de Dacis audisti?' 'nil equidem.' 'ut tu semper..."
