contuerier
Dictionary entries
- Entry →contueor, contueri, contuitus sum:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
look at/gaze on/behold; see to; be in sight of, have view of; contemplate/weigh;
pres. infin.
Examples
- P
Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...cetera sidera vocans quasi coram interrogabat, vellentne contueri inane solum: potius mare superfundere[nt] adversus terrarum ereptores..." - P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...statuas suas, plerumque rostra aut Galbae occisi locum contueri, postremo ad Gemonias, ubi corpus Flavii Sabini iacuerat, propulere..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...propria, quae spectet. Licebit ergo civibus tuis invicem contueri: dabitur, non cubiculum principis, sed ipsum principem cernere..."