sorbeat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sorbeo, sorbere, sorbui, sorbitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
drink, absorb;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...exsurgit mensa lucernis. i nunc et dubita qua sorbeat aera sanna Maura, Pudicitiae ueterem cum praeterit aram, Tullia..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...fluminum alueos in mare aufertur; exiguum est quod sorbeat terra, nec id seruat: aut enim arida..."