mirentur
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;
pl. pres. pass. subj. 3rd - 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;
pl. pres. subj. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Iliacos attollat fabula murosascribatque deis; fragili circumdata testamoenia mirentur refugi Babylonia Parthi. 50en, quantum Tigris, quantum celer ambit..." Liber VII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...inmodici dent bona musta lacus; sic fora mirentur, sic te Palatia laudent, excolat et geminas plurima palma fores..."- L
Liber XVI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...eant, quo illos singuli dies trudant, ut mirentur aliquid ipsos amittere, amissuri uno die omnia. Quidquid..." - L
Liber VII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...tempus quo posteri nostri tam aperta nos nescisse mirentur. Harum quinque stellarum, quae se ingerunt nobis, quae alio..." - M
Liber II
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...uitiosas orationes, quas tamen plerique iudiciorum prauitate mirentur, legi palam, ostendique in his quam multa inpropria obscura tumida..." - P
Dialogus de Oratoribus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...quorum ea natura est, ut secura velint, [periculosa mirentur]. Transeo ad formam et consuetudinem veterum iudiciorum. Quae etsi..." - G
Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...talia doctissimos gravissimos sanctissimos homines scriptitasse, me scribere mirentur. Ab illis autem quibus notum est, quos quantosque auctores..."