expectans
Dictionary entries
- Entry →expecto, expectare, expectavi, expectatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
await, expect; anticipate; hope for;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...I.ii LYDVS Iam dudum, Pistoclere, tacitus te sequor, expectans quas tu res hoc ornatu geras. namque..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...praeceptorum, alter laetus, hilaris, occasionem referendae gratiae expectans et ex hoc ipso adfectu gaudium grande percipiens nec quaerens..."Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...crepuere malae, saxaque impatiens morae reuulsit unguis uiscera expectans mea; nodosa sortis uerba et implexos dolos ac triste..."
Liber Sextus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...bella mouent; medio coniunx stat candida prato uictorem expectans, rumpunt obnixa furentes pectora, subdit amor stimulos et uulnera..."In Catilinam IV
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...publica tamquam obsidem consulatus mei, neque ille, qui expectans huius exitum diei stat in conspectu meo, gener. Moveo..."