flagellari
Dictionary entries
- Entry →flagello, flagellare, flagellavi, flagellatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
flog, whip, lash, scourge; strike repeatedly; thresh/flail (grain); "whip up";
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
- L
Liber XVI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...metus non posse: hic consentiamus, mala facinora conscientia flagellari et plurimum illi tormentorum esse eo quod perpetua illam..." - P
Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...pondere serpentis curvata est arbor et ima parte flagellari gemuit sua robora caudae. Dum spatium victor victi considerat..."