scrutantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →scruto, scrutare, scrutavi, scrutatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
search/probe/examine carefully/thoroughly; explore/scan/scrutinize/investigate;
pl. pres. pass. ind. 3rd - Entry →scrutor, scrutari, scrutatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
search/probe/examine carefully/thoroughly; explore/scan/scrutinize/investigate;
pl. pres. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...illos corrigunt et ordinant, quaedamnaturam eorum et originem scrutantur. (3) Cum quare hominemnatura produxerit, quare praetulerit animalibus ceteris..."
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...discissus amictu Luctus atrox caesoque inuitat pectore matres. scrutantur galeas frigentum inuentaque monstrant corpora, prociduae super externosque suosque..."Liber IV
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...famem.Profecti sunt legati non celeri pede;dum naribus scrutantur escam in stercore,citati non respondent. Vix tandem inueniteos..."Metamorphoses XV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...protinus ereptas viventi pectore fibras inspiciunt mentesque deum scrutantur in illis; inde (fames homini vetitorum tanta ciborum) audetis..."Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...saxorum Vitelliani provolvunt, disiectam fluitantemque testudinem lanceis contisque scrutantur, donec soluta compage scutorum exanguis aut laceros prosternerent multa..."Germania
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...solita Germanorum inertia laborant. Sed et mare scrutantur, ac soli omnium sucinum, quod ipsi glesum vocant, inter vada..."Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...Raptores orbis, postquam cuncta vastantibus defuere terrae, mare scrutantur: si locuples hostis est, avari, si pauper, ambitiosi, quos..."