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..."- P
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..."