fateamur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →fateor, fateri, fassus sum:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
admit, confess (w/ACC); disclose; acknowledge; praise (w/DAT);
pl. pres. subj. 1st
Examples
- L
Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...ipsis sapientiam sectantibus magna discrimina esse fateamur necesse est: alius iam in tantum profecit ut contra fortunam audeat..." - M
V
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...ampliare alia iuvenis invidia: 'fratrem,' inquit, 'mihi praetulisti.' fateamur paulisper hoc crimen, agnoscamus hoc nefas: impudentissime generis humani..." - M
Liber Quartus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...obscuratio consequitur, saepe accidit, ut nihil interesse nostra fateamur, sint illa necne sint, ut in sole, quod..." - P
Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...latus erigitur cubitoque innixa sinistro 'viderit: insanos' inquit 'fateamur amores! ei mihi, quo labor? quem mens mea concipit..."