placemus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →placo, placare, placavi, placatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
appease; placate; reconcile;
pl. pres. act. subj. 1st - 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;
pl. pres. act. ind. 1st
Examples
- M
Liber X
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...nostras fortuna manus: en, altera uenit 385uictima nobilior. placemus caede secundaHesperias gentes: iugulus mihi Caesaris haustushoc praestare potest..." - M
Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...dimissa marito. 765hostis ad aduentum rumpamus foedera taedae,placemus socerum. sic est tibi cognita, Magne,nostra fides? credisne..." - L
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...occupatis fuit. Illud praecipue inpedit, quod cito nobis placemus; si invenimus qui nos bonos viros dicat, qui prudentes..." - L
Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...ipse uultus flebiles praefert notas, exprome cuius capite placemus deos. Creo Fari iubes tacere quae suadet metus..." - L
Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...lacus, per Styga, per amnes igneos amens sequar] placemus umbras: capitis exuuias cape laceraeque frontis accipe abscisam comam..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...ridiclei videmur; ecce magister tuus, homo maior natus: placemus illi. Tu lacticulosus, nec 'mu' nec 'ma' argutas, vasus..." - P
Aeneid III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...ergo agite et divum ducunt qua iussa sequamur: placemus ventos et Cnosia regna petamus. nec longo distant cursu..."