foverat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →foveo, fovere, fovi, fotus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
keep warm; favor, cherish, maintain, foster;
sg. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...concidit. et vulgus eadem pravitate insectabatur interfectum qua foverat viventem. Patrem illi . . . Luceriam. septimum et quinquagensimum aetatis annum..."Liber I
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...sibi irascerer, nec fallebatur: irascebar. Rustici Aruleni periculum foverat, exsultaverat morte; adeo ut librum recitaret publicaretque..."