inhaerebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →inhaereo, inhaerere, inhaesi, inhaesus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
stick/hold fast/to, cling, adhere, fasten on; haunt, dwell in; get teeth in;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...ostro inter honoratos medioque in vertice canos crinis inhaerebat, magni fiducia regni. Sexta resurgebant orientis cornua lunae..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...nymphae denegat; illa premit commissaque corpore toto sicut inhaerebat, "pugnes licet, inprobe," dixit, "non tamen effugies..."Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...puellaris cum virginali verecundia. Ut illa patris cervicibus inhaerebat! ut nos amicos paternos et amanter et modeste complectebatur..."