quassare
Dictionary entries
- Entry →quasso, quassare, quassavi, quassatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
shake repeatedly; wave, flourish; batter; weaken;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...quam "iacere", unde id verbum traductum est, et "quassare" quam "quatere" gravius violentiusque est. Non igitur, quia volgo..."Phoenissae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...Haec telis petes Flammisque tecta? poteris has Amphionis Quassare moles? nulla quas struxit manus, Stridente tardum machina ducens..."
Liber Octavus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...arbore somnos. contra Tartareis Colchis spumare cunctaque Lethaei quassare silentia rami perstat et adverso luctantia lumina cantu obruit..."