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
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..."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..."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..."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..."