specubus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →spec, spec:
Noun · 4th declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
cave, abyss, chasm; hole, pit; hollow (of any kind); grotto;
abl. pl.dat. pl.
Examples
- P
Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...magno laeti clamore reportant. ipsi in defossis specubus secura sub alta otia agunt terra, congestaque robora totasque aduoluere..." - G
de Bello Alexandrino
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...distributi munitionum tuendarum causa vicatim ex privatis aedificiis specubus ac puteis extracta aqua utebantur. Hoc probato consilio magnum..."