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
Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...cetera sidera vocans quasi coram interrogabat, vellentne contueri inane solum: potius mare superfundere[nt] adversus terrarum ereptores..."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..."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..."