piari
Dictionary entries
- Entry →pio, piare, piavi, piatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
appease, propitiate; cleanse, expiate;
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...Nummis. MEN. Nummum a me accipe: iube te piari de mea pecunia. nam equidem insanum esse te certo..."Ars Amatoria I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...sicca fuisse novem, Cum Thrasius Busirin adit, monstratque piari Hospitis adfuso sanguine posse Iovem. Illi Busiris 'fies Iovis..."