detracter
Dictionary entries
- Entry →detracto, detractare, detractavi, detractatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
refuse (to undertake/undergo), decline, reject, evade, recoil from;; disparage/belittle, speak/write slightingly of; reduce/depreciate/detract from;
sg. pres. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...Giton sub insolito fasce durabat, et mercennarius Corax, detractator ministerii, posita frequentius sarcina male dicebat properantibus, affirmabatque..." - P
Amores I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...verbera plura ferunt, quam quos iuvat usus aratri, detractant prensi dum iuga prima boves. asper equus duris contunditur..." - T
Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...caesa eo die scribit; Cato ipse, haud sane detractator laudum suarum, multos caesos ait, numerum non adscribit. Tria..." - T
Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...statuunt. Instruitur acies, nec Veiens hostis Etruscaeque legiones detractant. Prope certa spes erat non magis secum pugnaturos quam..."