mirabor
Dictionary entries
- Entry →miro, mirare, miravi, miratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
be amazed/surprised/bewildered (at); look in wonder/awe/admiration at;; admire/revere; wonder; marvel at;
sg. fut. pass. ind. 1st - Entry →miror, mirari, miratus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
be amazed/surprised/bewildered (at); look in wonder/awe/admiration at;; admire/revere; wonder; marvel at;
sg. fut. ind. 1st
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...prudentissimus, statim intellexi quid esset, et respiciens Agamemnon: "Mirabor, inquam, nisi omnia ista de facta sunt aut certe..."Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...dicit, sed tumultuari. XIII. Nec fortuiti sermonis contextum mirabor umquam, quem iurgantibus etiam mulierculis videamus superfluere..."Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...decorem compositionis quaerimus, sed facilitatem. Non tamen mirabor Latinos magis indulsisse compositioni quam Atticos, quo minus in verbis..."Ecloga I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...congestum caespite culmen, post aliquot, mea regna, videns mirabor aristas? impius haec tam culta novalia miles habebit, barbarus..."Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...leui pro paupere et eripere atris litibus implicitum, mirabor si sciet inter noscere mendacem uerumque beatus amicum..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...laetum opere corpus, et crescentia laboribus membra mirabor. Video enim iam inde antiquitus maritos dearum, ac deorum liberos..."