mentas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →menta, mentae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
mint; any cultivated mint;
acc. pl.
Examples
Liber XI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...ossa manu. Tondeat hic inopes Cynicos et Stoica menta collaque pulverea nudet equina juba. Hic miserum Scythica..."Liber X
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...lactuca sedens et tonsile porrum, Nec deest ructatrix menta nec herba salax; Secta coronabunt rutatos ova lacertos..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...ramis insignis olivae sacra ferens? nosco crinis incanaque menta regis Romani primam qui legibus urbem fundabit, Curibus parvis..."Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...manabunt flumina mammis. nec minus interea barbas incanaque menta Cinyphii tondent hirci saetasque comantis usum in castrorum..."Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...tibi quondam femineos artus in olentes vertere mentas, Persephone, licuit: nobis Cinyreius heros invidiae mutatus erit?" sic fata..."Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...parem fecit; quae postquam subdita clivum sustulit, aequatam mentae tersere virentes. ponitur hic bicolor sincerae baca Minervae conditaque..."