formabat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →formo, formare, formavi, formatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
form, shape, fashion, model;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- G
Domitianus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...Caesaris nihil lectitabat; epistolas orationesque et edicta alieno formabat ingenio. Sermonis tamen nec inelegantis, dictorum interdum etiam notabilium..." - P
Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...facto, sed fama perennis. tempore quo primum Phrygia formabat in Ida Aeneas classem et pelagi petere alta parabat..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...retinebat amictum, dextera tum leviter deducens fila supinis formabat digitis, tum prono in pollice torquens libratum tereti versabat..." - Q
Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...membra animumque tuum, nabis sine cortice.' sic me formabat puerum dictis et, sive iubebat ut facerem quid, 'habes..."