rapias
Dictionary entries
- Entry →rapio, rapere, rapui, raptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
drag off; snatch; destroy; seize, carry off; pillage; hurry;
sg. pres. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
- P
Ars Amatoria I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...Saepe tacens vocem verbaque vultus habet. Fac primus rapias illius tacta labellis Pocula, quaque bibet parte puella, bibas..." - Q
Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...removere memento, sic tamen, ut limis rapias, quid prima secundo cera velit versu; solus multisne coheres, veloci percurre..."