delectavit
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);
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...Vale. LXXIV. SENECA LUCILIO SUO SALUTEM Epistula tua delectavit me et marcentem excitavit; memoriam quoque meam, quae..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...enim spectat. Unde istunc nanctus es ? quid te delectavit: alienum mortuum tollere?' At ille 'non cognoscis me?' inquit..."ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...tempus animus mittendus est et quicquid nos umquam delectavit reducendum ac frequenti cogitatione pertractandum est: longior fideliorque..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...Laudo, inquit, Ganymedem. Oportet hodie bene sit". Non delectavit me tam curiosum principium, timuique ne in contubernium recepissem..."