perlegit
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;
sg. perf. act. ind. 3rdsg. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...parturienti filiae sollicitus accersit edictum et ludorum ordinem perlegit; nemo qui ad incendium domus suae currit tabulam latrunculariam..." - L
de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...bibliothecas, quarum dominus uix tota uita indices perlegit? Onerat discentem turba, non instruit, multoque satius est paucis..." - G
Divus Claudius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...primum frequenti auditorio commisisset, aegre perlegit refrigeratus saepe a semet ipso. Nam cum initio recitationis defractis compluribus subsellis..." - G
BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...super caput in pulvino temere positam sumit ac perlegit, dein propere cognitis insidiis ad regem pergit. Nabdalsa paulo..."