placebo
Dictionary entries
- Entry →placeo, placere, placui, placitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Taking Dative
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
please, satisfy, give pleasure to (with dat.);; it is pleasing/satisfying, gives pleasure; is believed/settled/agreed/decided;
sg. fut. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...miror crura manusque, dicere, Galla, soles "Nuda placebo magis", et semper uitas communia balnea nobis. Numquid, Galla, times..."ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...credi non potuerit, at ego mihi ipse magis placebo, quod inter eas res beatus ero quae miseros solent..."de Vita Beata
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...nouae gratulationes prioribus subtexantur: non ob hoc mihi placebo. Muta in contrarium hanc indulgentiam temporis, hinc illinc percutiatur..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...habere potui. Summa tamen excusationis meae haec est: placebo tibi, si me culpam emendare permiseris." Dimissa cum eiusmodi..."