dictet
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dicto, dictare, dictavi, dictatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
dictate (for writing/speaking); compose; draw up; order/prescribe; fix (survey);; say/declare/assert repeatedly/habitually/often/frequently; reiterate; recite;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Satura VIII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...Phalaris licet imperet ut sis falsus et admoto dictet periuria tauro, summum crede nefas animam praeferre pudori..."Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...contrariis aspernationes sunt;sine ulla cogitatione quae hoc dictet, sine consilio fit quidquid naturapraecepit. (22) Non uides quanta..."
