pungebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →pungo, pungere, pepugi, punctus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
prick, puncture; sting (insect); jab/poke; mark with points/pricks; vex/trouble;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...crudeles existimes nubes, digitum suum bene acuto graphio pungebat et hoc sanguine litabat; nec minus ab huius agello..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...comatoria cupienti mihi invocare Quiritum fidem malas pungebat, illinc puella penicillo, quod et ipsum satureo tinxerat, Ascylton opprimebat..."