petebar
Dictionary entries
- Entry →peto, petere, petivi, petitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
attack; aim at; desire; beg, entreat, ask (for); reach towards, make for;
sg. imperf. pass. ind. 1st
Examples
- P
Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...parte lacessit. me mea defendit gravitas frustraque petebar; haud secus ac moles, magno quam murmure fluctus oppugnant; manet..." - P
Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...regia virgo divitibusque procis (ne me contemne) petebar: forma mihi nocuit. nam cum per litora lentis passibus..."