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
- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...prudentissimus, statim intellexi quid esset, et respiciens Agamemnon: "Mirabor, inquam, nisi omnia ista de facta sunt aut certe..." - M
Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...dicit, sed tumultuari. XIII. Nec fortuiti sermonis contextum mirabor umquam, quem iurgantibus etiam mulierculis videamus superfluere..." - M
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..." - P
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..." - Q
Ars Poetica
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
"...leui pro paupere et eripere atris litibus implicitum, mirabor si sciet inter noscere mendacem uerumque beatus amicum..." - G
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..."