lauru
Dictionary entries
- Entry →laurus, laurus:
Feminine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
laurel/bay tree/foliage/sprig/branch (medicine/magic); triumph/victory; honor;
abl. sg.dat. sg.
Examples
- A
Liber V
Aulus Gellius
"...vulgo dicitur "aurum coronarium". Haec antiquitus e lauru erant, post fieri ex auro coeptae. "Obsidionalis" est, quam..." Liber VIII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...belli purpureum fundens Caesar ab ore iubar; hic lauru redimita comas et candida cultu Roma salutauit uoce manuque..."- L
Agamemnon
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...gerens. releuemus artus.—En deos tandem suos uictrice lauru cinctus Agamemnon adit, et festa coniunx obuios illi tulit..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...sullaturit" et "proscripturit"; atque "laureati postes" pro illo "lauru coronati" ex eadem fictione sunt, sed hoc feliciter evaluit..." - P
Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...laetos molire triumphos et Paeana voca nitidaque incingere lauru! vincis enim, moriorque libens: age, ferrea, gaude! certe aliquid..." - P
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...propinquo aut amico interfectis, agere grates dies, ornare lauru domum, genua ipsius advolvi et dextram osculis fatigare. atque..." - P
Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...auctores in theatrum attulerunt, Vitellio plausere; populus cum lauru ac floribus Galbae imagines circum templa tulit, congestis..."