obduceres
Dictionary entries
- Entry →obduco, obducere, obduxi, obductus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
lead or draw before; cover/lay over; overspread; wrinkle; screen;
sg. imperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...potuit caelo pelagoque minari torporem insolitum mundoque obducere terram. e caelo uolucres subito cum pondere lapsae, in scopulis..." - T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...possent] offecto lumine obire et neque opinantis tenebris obducere terras, cum quasi conivent et aperto lumine rursum omnia..." - L
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...illam aestivam nivem non putas callum iocineribus obducere? Quid? illa ostrea, inertissimam carnem caeno saginatam, nihil existimas limosae..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...attonitis, et mors non dubia miserorum oculos coepit obducere. <. . .> [XX] "Rogo, inquam, domina, si quid tristius paras, celerius..."