decoraverant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →decoro, decorare, decoravi, decoratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
adorn/grace, embellish/add beauty to; glorify, honor/add honor to; do credit to;
pl. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...omnis Graecia gloriam atque gratiam praecipuam claritudinis inclitissimae decoravere monumentis: signis, statuis, elogiis, historiis aliisque rebus gratissimum..."Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Antiocho, hic Mithridate pulsis fidem atque virtutem Magnetum decoravere, uti Dianae Leucophrynae perfugium inviolabile foret. Aphrodisienses posthac..."