provocabat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →provoco, provocare, provocavi, provocatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
call forth; challenge; provoke;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...poscebat. Scipio Africanus fratris nomine ad collegium tribunorum provocabat petebatque, ut virum consularem triumphalemque a collegae vi defenderent..."Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...contumacia neque inani iactatione libertatis famam fatumque provocabat. Sciant, quibus moris est inlicita mirari, posse etiam sub malis..."