devias
Dictionary entries
- Entry →devio, deviare, deviavi, deviatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Stelten (Ecclesiastical Latin)
- Age:
- Medieval
detour; stray; depart;
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd - Entry →devius, devia, devium:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
remote/secluded; out-of-way, off road; sequestered, in seclusion; retired; shy;; erratic/inconsistent, devious; deviating/straying/wandering; foolish (L+S);
acc. pl. (f.)
Examples
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...cura. Si me nolueris per devia ducere, facilius ad id quo tendo perveniam; nam, ut ait ille tragicus..."
Liber Octavus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...deprecor, hospes.' Haec ait atque furens rapido per devia passu tollitur. ille haeret comes et mi[se]ratur..."Liber Tertius
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...horis antra tenent, patet ad medias per devia noctes saetigerum latus et torvae coma sibila frontis. vox omnes..."
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...dives Elissa marito donatur testesque ululant per devia nymphae., diffugimus, festasque dapes redimitaque vina abripiunt famuli..."Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...virga retenta est: hac agit, ut pastor, per devia rura capellas dum venit abductas, et structis cantat avenis..."Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...aequo meta distabat utraque, cum iuvenis placido per devia lustra vagantes participes operum conpellat Hyantius ore: 'lina madent..."Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...virga retenta est: hac agit, ut pastor, per devia rura capellas dum venit abductas, et structis cantat avenis..."Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...perniciem fore rati, perversis rupibus iuxta, invia ac devia adsueti decurrunt. Tum vero simul ab hostibus, simul..."