deprehendero
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deprehendo, deprehendere, deprehendi, deprehensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
seize/catch; catch napping/redhanded; surprise/pounce on; arrest; intercept;; discover, discern, recognize; detect; indicate, reveal; embarrass;
sg. futperf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
- M
XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...aliena prata pascar. si qua in villis deprehendero pecora, diripiam; bellum me alet. citius ad frumentum perveniemus, quam..." - M
In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...modo factum, sed inceptum ullum conatumve contra patriam deprehendero, sentiet in hac urbe esse consules vigilantis, esse egregios..."