nantis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →no, nare, navi, -:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
swim, float;
gen. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- P
Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...caerula concha exterrens freta, cui laterum tenus hispida nanti frons hominem praefert, in pristim desinit alvus, spumea semifero..." - P
Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...leuem paleam et frondes uolitare caducas aut summa nantis in aqua conludere plumas. at Boreae de parte trucis..." - P
Metamorphoses XI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Ceyx socerumque patremque invocat heu! frustra, sed plurima nantis in ore Alcyone coniunx: illam meminitque refertque, illius ante..." - G
Liber IX
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...experimento. Maxime puer, qui primus expertus est, adnatat nanti, insilit tergo, fertur referturque, agnosci se amari putat, amat..."