convallant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →convallo, convallare, convallavi, convallatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
surround with a rampart/entrenchment; hedge in; encircle, surround (L+S);
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...distinguens inter plaga currere posset per tumulos et convallis camposque profusa; ut nunc esse vides vario distincta lepore..."de Bello Hispaniensi
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...incendit Pompeius et trans flumen Salsum per convallis castra inter duo oppida Ateguam et Ucubim in monte constituit..."de Bello Africo
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...propiore loco fuerat, eo celerius occurrerat. Erat convallis satis magna latitudine, altitudine praerupta, crebris locis speluncae in modum..."