persequere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →persequor, persequi, persecutus sum:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
follow up, pursue; overtake; attack; take vengeance on; accomplish;
sg. pres. imp. 2ndsg. fut. ind. 2ndsg. pres. ind. 2nd
Examples
Liber V
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...numquam satis cum vitiis, quae, oro te, Lucili, persequere sine modo, sine fine; nam illis quoque nec finis..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...quae nobis lacrimas educunt! XXXIV. 1. Cedo nunc, persequere cetera, cibos potiones horumque causa paratas in ambitionem munditias..."Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...sonantia linguis ingeniumque capax totumque Helicona dedisset, tristia persequerer miserarum fata sororum. inmemores decoris liventia pectora tundunt, dumque..."