lactant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lacto, lactare, lactavi, lactatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
entice, lead on, induce; wheedle, cajole, dupe;
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...blande cum lingua lambere temptant aut ubi eos lactant, pedibus morsuque potentes suspensis teneros imitantur dentibus haustus, longe..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...ciui, hostis est; da regi, tyrannus est. Lactant. De Ira Dei 17.13 3(fr2).1 Ira est cupiditas..."Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...siquis sanguine tinctam advena vidisset, mactatos crederet illic lactantes vitulos Amathusiacasque bidentes: hospes erat caesus! sacris offensa nefandis..."