flagellarier
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
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..."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..."