praetexitur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →praetexo, praetexere, praetexui, praetextus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
weave in front, fringe; cloak (with); pretend;; border; adorn; D:tragedy;
sg. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Libri XI-XIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...undique operosa et in picturae modum variata circumlitio praetexitur, nisi vitro absconditur camera, nisi Thasius lapis, quondam rarum..."
Liber Quartus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...penitus stagnum navale coercet ripa suburbanisque vadum praetexitur hortis. illic egregium formaque animisque videbis Marcellum et celso praesignem..."