devorares
Dictionary entries
- Entry →devoro, devorare, devoravi, devoratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
devour, consume; swallow, gulp down; engulf/ingulf, absorb, drink in;; use up; waste; swallow, endure, put up with; repress/suppress, check (emotion);
sg. imperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
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SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...Asse panem quem emisses, non potuisses cum altero devorare. Nunc oculum bublum vidi maiorem. Heu heu, quotidie peius..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...malum fovetis? aut quid hic potest nisi uncta devorare patrimonia? eone nomine urbis opulentissime socer generque, perdidistis omnia..."
