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
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..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...caelo Delphicus ales omina laeta dedit pepulitque meatibus auras. Nec non horrendi nemoris de parte sinistra insolitae voces..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...civitates Mutudurei et [. . .]eores hunc aut illum [com]meatibus iuvere; fames ambos fatigavit. Dein tamen Pompeius quadrato [agmine..."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..."