fallent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →fallo, fallere, fefelli, falsus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
deceive; slip by; disappoint; be mistaken, beguile, drive away; fail; cheat;
pl. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...Phoebe mendax, fata superaui impia. Pauitante gressu sequere fallentes uias; suspensa plantis efferens uestigia caecam tremente dextera noctem..."Liber VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...oratio sed etiam continua. Verum longius fortasse progredior fallente transitu et a dispositione ad elocutionis praecepta labor, quae..."
Liber Duodecimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...rediturus ab undis, cum tamen illa grauem luctu fallente laborem nescit abisse diem: nec caligantibus aruis terretur..."Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...quos nexis ambagibus augur Apollo portendi generos, uultu fallente ferarum, ediderat. tunc sic tendens ad sidera palmas..."Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Thronium Salius Saliumque Nealces insidiis, iaculo et longe fallente sagitta. Iam gravis aequabat luctus et mutua Mavors funera..."Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Corynaeum sternit Asilas, hic iaculo bonus, hic longe fallente sagitta, Ortygium Caeneus, victorem Caenea Turnus, Turnus Ityn Cloniumque..."Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...cinctaeque ad pectora vestes bracchia docta movent, studio fallente laborem. illic et Tyrium quae purpura sensit aenum texitur..."Ars Amatoria I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...minus est una fraude tuenda fides. Fallite fallentes: ex magna parte profanum Sunt genus: in laqueos quos posuere..."