expetet
Dictionary entries
- Entry →expeto, expetere, expeti, expetitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
ask for; desire; aspire to; demand; happen; fall on (person);
sg. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Eunuchus
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...gnaviter atque, ubi pati non poteri', quom nemo expetet, infecta pace ultro ad eam venies indicans te amare..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...tandem ab Alcide uacat, paelex supersum—quanta supplicia expetet ne parere possim! fecit hic natus mihi uterum timendum..."Liber Quintus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...ipsa se fundet in ceteras virtutes, sic illas expetet. servari enim iustitia nisi a forti viro, nisi..."