falle
Dictionary entries
- Entry →fallo, fallere, fefelli, falsus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
deceive; slip by; disappoint; be mistaken, beguile, drive away; fail; cheat;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Amphitruo
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Tuae fide credo? MERC. Meae. SOS. Quid si falles? MERC. Tum Mercurius Sosiae iratus siet. SOS. Animum advorte..."Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...malis. SATELLES: Ipsosne, per quos fallere alium cogitas, falles? ATREVS: Vt ipsi crimine et culpa uacent. quid enim..."
Liber Septimus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...potius--?" strictumque ruebat in ensem. promisi (ne falle precor) cumque ipsa moverer adloquio casuque viri te passa rogari..."Appendix Perottina
Gaius Phaedrus
"...dixerint."Aliis minare; me" inquit "non falles, era;flagris sum caesus , uerum quia dixi modo." XVIII. [Gallus..."Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...possit. Tu faciem illius noctem non amplius unam falle dolo, et notos pueri puer indue voltus..."Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...pars o Telethusa mearum, pone graves curas, mandataque falle mariti. nec dubita, cum te partu Lucina levarit, tollere..."Amores I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...faciant udas illa vel ille genas; nec, siquem falles, tu periurare timeto— commodat in lusus numina surda Venus..."Ars Amatoria I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...Minos, nullus quaeratur adulter: Sive virum mavis fallere, falle viro! In nemus et saltus thalamo regina relicto Fertur..."