flagites
Dictionary entries
- Entry →flagito, flagitare, flagitavi, flagitatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
demand urgently; require; entreat, solicit, press, dun, importune;
sg. pres. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Mostellaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...usque a mani ad vesperum: quasi flagitator astat usque ad ostium, nec mi umbra hic usquamst, nisi..."Liber VIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...decretum triumphum audivit, ipse quoque triumphi ante victoriam flagitator Romam rediit. Qua cupiditate offensis patribus negantibusque nisi Pedo..."Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...fallet." Centurio erat M. Flavoleius, inter primores pugnae flagitator. "Victor" inquit, "M. Fabi, revertar ex acie"; si fallat..."Liber XI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...exitio in tempore memorabo, consurgunt patres legemque Cinciam flagitant, qua cavetur antiquitus ne quis ob causam orandam pecuniam..."