hebetare
Dictionary entries
- Entry →hebeto, hebetare, hebetavi, hebetatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
blunt, deaden, make dull/faint/dim/torpid/inactive (light/plant/senses), weaken;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
- L
de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...quantum sibi cives suos liceat, experiendo temptare, sed hebetare aciem imperii sui. 3. Praestitisti, Caesar, civitatem incruentam..." - P
Amores II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...avium gloria, nempe iaces! tu poteras fragiles pinnis hebetare zmaragdos tincta gerens rubro Punica rostra croco. non fuit..." - T
Liber XXX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...nihil aliud, uolneribus suis ferrum hostile hebetarent; tum, ubi omnis spes esset, milites Carthaginienses Afrosque ut omnibus rebus..."