meatibus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →meatus, meatus:
Masculine · Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
movement along line, course/path; progress; line followed; channel; passage-way;
abl. pl.dat. pl.
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...terra celsior ulla nox cadit in caelum lunaeque meatibus obstat, si flexus oblita uagi per recta cucurrit signa..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...caelo Delphicus ales omina laeta dedit pepulitque meatibus auras. Nec non horrendi nemoris de parte sinistra insolitae voces..." - G
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...civitates Mutudurei et [. . .]eores hunc aut illum [com]meatibus iuvere; fames ambos fatigavit. Dein tamen Pompeius quadrato [agmine..." - P
Germania
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...pluris populos adit, donec in Ponticum mare sex meatibus erumpat: septimum os paludibus hauritur. Ipsos Germanos indigenas crediderim..."