lacessentis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lacesso, lacessere, lacessivi, lacessitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
provoke, excite, harass, challenge, harass; attack, assail;
gen. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...exemerit turbae et altius steterit quisquis despexit lacessentis: proprium est magnitudinis uerae non sentire percussum. Sic immanis fera..."Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...repentinaque eorum audacia terrorem hosti paulo ante ultro lacessenti incussit. Itaque et ipse Hasdrubal in collem satis arduum..."