hebetis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →hebes, (gen.), hebetis:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
blunt, dun; languid; stupid;
acc. pl. (m./f.)gen. sg. (all) - Entry →hebeo, hebere, -, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
be blunt; be sluggish/inactive; grow dim/faint, die down; (of feelings);
pl. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
- T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...esse potissit. id licet hinc quamvis hebeti cognoscere corde. principio circum tribus actis impiger annis floret equus, puer..." - T
Liber IV
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...summo de cortice eorum; id licet hinc quamvis hebeti cognoscere corde. Principio quoniam mittunt in rebus apertis corpora..." - D
Satura XI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...Scythicae uolucres et phoenicopterus ingens et Gaetulus oryx hebeti lautissima ferro caeditur et tota sonat ulmea cena Subura..." - L
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...esse ingenii mobilis et erecti, alium tardi et hebetis, utique alium alio ingeniosiorem. Ingenii vis praeceptis alitur..." - P
Metamorphoses XII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...hasta, nil tamen emissi profecit acumine ferri utque hebeti pectus tantummodo contudit ictu. 'nate dea, nam te fama..." - G
Epistola ad Caesarem II
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust) from SPURIA
"...quem dominari decebat, servitio obpressere, nequicquam eo postea hebeti atque claudo, pro exercito uti volunt: nam imprudentia pleraque..."
