delectantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →delecto, delectare, delectavi, delectatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
delight, please, amuse, fascinate; charm, lure, entice; be a source of delight;; (PASS) be delighted/glad, take pleasure; (w/INF) enjoy (being/doing);
pl. pres. pass. ind. 3rd - Entry →delector, delectari, delectatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
delight, please, amuse, fascinate; charm, lure, entice; be a source of delight;; (PASS) be delighted/glad, take pleasure; (w/INF) enjoy (being/doing);
pl. pres. ind. 3rd
Examples
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...lumine dii egent et ne homines quidem delectantur fuligine. Vetemus salutationibus matutinis fungi et foribus adsidere templorum: humana..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...infelicem fieri uolunt, haec facere; illae fortuitis malis delectantur, haec non potest expectare fortunam: nocere ei quem odit..."Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...grata sunt haec, quae cum intellexerunt acumine suo delectantur, et gaudent non quasi audierint sed quasi invenerint. XXII..."In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...beati, dum praediis lectis, familiis magnis, conviviis apparatis delectantur, in tantum aes alienum inciderunt, ut, si salvi esse..."Liber Quintus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...agnoscunt, a quibus educantur. Deinde aequalibus delectantur libenterque se cum iis congregant dantque se ad ludendum fabellarumque auditione..."Liber IV
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...importari desiderent. Quin etiam iumentis, quibus maxime Galli delectantur quaeque impenso parant pretio, Germani importatis non utuntur..."