cressas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cresso, cressare, cressavi, cressatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Latham (Medieval Word List)
increase (size/number/honor), multiply; thrive;
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
- D
Satura X
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...haec+ ceu fastidita repulso nec Stheneboea minus quam Cressa excanduit, et se concussere ambae. mulier saeuissima tunc..." - L
Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...audiet, natura totiens legibus cedet suis, quotiens amabit Cressa? Ph. Quae memoras scio uera esse, nutrix; sed furor..." 
Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...multum Graiae cuperentque Latinaesic peperisse nurus. non talem Cressa superbum 25callida sollicito revocavit Thesea filo,nec Paris Oebalios..."- P
Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...reductos. olli serva datur operum haud ignara Minervae, Cressa genus, Pholoe, geminique sub ubere nati. Hoc pius Aeneas..." - P
Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...recessit. laeta toro surgit, purasque ad sidera supplex Cressa manus tollens, rata sint sua visa, precatur. Ut dolor..." - P
Amores I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...feras; talis periuri promissaque velaque Thesei flevit praecipites Cressa tulisse Notos; sic, nisi vittatis quod erat Cassandra capillis..." - P
Ars Amatoria I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...acerna, Dux gregis, et partu proditus auctor erat. Cressa Thyesteo si se abstinuisset amore (Et quantum..."