districtis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →distringo, distringere, distrinxi, districtus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stretch out/apart; detain; distract; pull in different directions;
abl. pl. perf. pass. part.dat. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →districtus, districta -um, districtior -or -us, districtissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
busy; having many claims on one's attention; pulled in different directions;
abl. pl. (all)dat. pl. (all)
Examples
- L
Liber IX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...promiserim: praeoccupati sumus, ad virtutem contendimus inter vitia districti. Pudet dicere: honesta colimus quantum vacat. At quam grande..." - L
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...labore compescunt et expeditionibus detinent: numquam vacat lascivire districtis, nihilque tam certum est quam otii vitia negotio discuti..." - L
de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...interest? quod arte alligati sunt alii, adstricti [alii], districti quoque: hic qui ad superiora progressus..." - L
de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...arripi non possit, et id ipsum illis districtis in multa subducitur. XI. Denique uis scire quam..." - M
IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...adplicat fato, et in hac turpissima perpetuitatis cogitatione districti per exigua festinantis aevi momenta praemorimur. faciamus potius..." - P
Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...fortunave mersit. saxum ingens volvunt alii, radiisque rotarum districti pendent; sedet aeternumque sedebit infelix Theseus, Phlegyasque miserrimus omnis..."