impube
Dictionary entries
- Entry →impubis, impubis, impube:
Adjective · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
below age of puberty, under age, youthful; beardless; chaste/virgin/celibate;
abl. sg. (all)acc. sg. (n.)nom. sg. (n.)voc. sg. (n.)
Examples
Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...resistentes fusosque, inermes atque armatos, servos liberos, puberes impubes, homines iumentaque; nec ullum superfuisset animal, ni consules receptui..."Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...dixit; ipsa quos vellet legeret. Productis omnibus elegisse impubes dicitur; quod et virginitati decorum et consensu obsidum ipsorum..."Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...senes aut invalidos conquirendo, quos pretio dimitterent: rursus impubes et forma conspicui (et est plerisque procera pueritia..."