sorbens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sorbeo, sorbere, sorbui, sorbitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
drink, absorb;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...immanitas, quae Scylla, quae Charybdis Ausonium mare Siculumque sorbens quaeue anhelantem premens Titana tantis Aetna feruebit minis..."
Liber Decimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...inluminat umbras. ille coronatos iamdudum amplectitur ignes, fatidicum sorbens uultu flagrante uaporem. stant tristes horrore comae, uittasque trementes..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...exprimere. Charybdis mare verticosum, quod forte illata naufragia sorbens gurgitibus occultis milia sexaginta Tauromenitana ad litora trahit..."