perlegant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →perlego, perlegere, perlegi, perlectus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
read over/through (silent/aloud); scan, survey, run one's eyes over; recount;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- T
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...estne eius? NIC. Novi. libet perlegere has. C. Perlege. nunc superum limen scinditur, nunc adest exitium Ilio, turbat..." - D
Satura XIV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...excitat: 'accipe ceras, scribe, puer, uigila, causas age, perlege rubras maiorum leges; aut uitem posce libello, sed caput..." Liber XIV
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Saturnalicio lusit et ipse luto. CLXXXIII Homeri Batrachomachia. Perlege Maeonio cantatas carmine ranas Et frontem nugis solvere disce..."