lacessens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lacesso, lacessere, lacessivi, lacessitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
provoke, excite, harass, challenge, harass; attack, assail;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber Duodecimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...colla cruento imbre madent, nouus arma parat campumque lacessens dissimulat gemitus et uulnera puluere celat. ipsa metus Libycos..."Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...adulatione promptissimus fuit A. Vitellius, optimum quemque iurgio lacessens et respondenti reticens, ut pavida ingenia solent. at consules..."