letifero
Dictionary entries
- Entry →letifer, letifera, letiferum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
deadly; fatal;
abl. sg. (m.)abl. sg. (n.)dat. sg. (m.)dat. sg. (n.)
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...innoxia numina terris serpitis, aurato nitidi fulgore dracones, letiferos ardens facit Africa: ducitis altum aera cum pinnis, armentaque..." - D
Satura IV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...ubicumque natat. donabitur ergo, ne pereat. iam letifero cedente pruinis autumno, iam quartanam sperantibus aegris, stridebat deformis hiems..." - L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...loquetur. Vidi, uidi miseranda mei fata parentis, cum letifero stipite pulsus tota iacuit sparsus in aula..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...ruentes acciperent laeti divum fumantibus aris. saepe in letifero belli certamine Mavors aut rapidi Tritonis era aut Amarunsia..." - P
Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...tuentes cornua, prosternit: socii rapuere iacentes; at non letiferos effugit Enaesimus ictus Hippocoonte satus: trepidantem et terga parantem..."