fruebamur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →fruor, frui, fructus sum:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Lesser
enjoy (proceeds/socially/sexually), profit by, delight in (w/ABL);
pl. imperf. ind. 1st
Examples
XIX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...blandiretur infantia, duravitque domus tota prosperitas, quamdiu pariter fruebamur, pariter dileximus, quamdiu civitas de nobis hoc solum poterat..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...intueri delatorum supina ora, retortasque cervices. Agnoscebamus et fruebamur, quum velut piaculares publicae solicitudinis victimae, supra sanguinem noxiorum..."