demeterent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →demeto, demetere, demessui, demessus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Agriculture
reap, cut, mow; cut off/down (body); pick (fruit); gather; take (honey); shear;
pl. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Agamemnon
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...patris nepos? [Cl.] Aegisthe, cessas impium ferro caput demetere? fratrem reddat aut animam statim. [Ae.] Abstrusa caeco carcere..."Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...etiam illud accidit, ut cuidam testis caudamque salacem demeterent ferro. 'iure' omnes: Galba negabat. tutior at quanto merx..."