delectatus
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);
nom. sg. perf. pass. part. - 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);
nom. sg. perf. part.
Examples
- A
Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...respueret, huius tamen verbi in ea parte sonitu delectatus: "Sacerdotes" inquit "Cereris atque illius fani antistitae". XXIII. Vsque..." - A
Liber XII
Aulus Gellius
"...dicant?' Ad ea Taurus uultu iam propemodum laetiore – delectatus enim uidebatur inlecebra quaestionis – : 'si iam amicus' inquit..." - A
Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...comoedia versum hunc: scrattae, scrupedae, strittivillae sordidae, delectatus faceta verborum antiquitate meretricum vitia atque deformitates significantium: "vel unus..." - C
Datames
Cornelius Nepos
"...gestam comperit, statim admitti iussit, magnopere delectatus cum facto tum ornatu, in primis quod nobilis rex in potestatem..." - C
Dion
Cornelius Nepos
"...totum traderet. Neque vero minus ipse Plato delectatus est Dione. Itaque cum a tyranno crudeliter violatus esset, quippe..." - L
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...admonebat, nubes minabantur; tamen exhausi totum. Non tantum delectatus sed gavisus sum. Quid ingenii iste habuit, quid animi..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...quod non tota capita praecidit? nouo genere poenae delectatus est. 2. Tale aliquid passi forent et Aethiopes..." - L
APOCOLOCYNTOSIS
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...exitum poterat. Tum Mercurius, qui semper ingenio eius delectatus esset, unam e tribus Parcis seducit et ait: "Quid..."