involaverant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →involo, involare, involavi, involatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
fly into or at, rush upon; seize on;
pl. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...intestina, non quicquam: scilicet iam puerum strigae involaverant et supposuerant stramenticium vavatonem. Rogo vos, oportet credatis, sunt mulieres..."Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...transitu hiberna alae Asciburgii sita; adeoque improvisi castra involavere ut non adloqui, non pandere aciem Vocula potuerit..."