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..."- L
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..." - L
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..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...habere potui. Summa tamen excusationis meae haec est: placebo tibi, si me culpam emendare permiseris." Dimissa cum eiusmodi..."