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
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..."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..."