tellurem
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tellus, telluris:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
earth, ground; the earth; land, country;
acc. sg.
Examples
Liber II
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...agitare leones, aeris in spatio magnam pendere docentes tellurem neque posse in terra sistere terram. adiunxere feras, quia..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...dicta dedit, dextrae coniungere dextram conatus, rupto tellurem soluit hiatu. Tunc Fortuna levi defudit pectore voces: 'O genitor..."
Liber Tertius
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...placitis sileant age litora coeptis!' Iamque sopor mediis tellurem presserat horis et circum tacito volitabant somnia mundo..."
Liber Decimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...longum caede recenti laetatus uidet innumeris feruere cateruis tellurem atque una gentem expirare ruina. qui tremor inicitur caeli..."Liber Octavus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...tumultu uadit ouans ac, prima sui documenta, sacerdos Tellurem placare parat: nec futile maestis id uisum Danais. geminas..."Liber Quintus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...ignifera fessus respirat ab Aetna Mulciber; ingenti tellurem proximus umbra uestit Athos nemorumque obscurat imagine pontum; Thraces arant..."Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...ulla volentem avertet, non, si tellurem effundat in undas diluvio miscens caelumque in Tartara solvat, ut sceptrum..."Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...timere.Curio Sicanias transcendere iussus in urbes,qua mare tellurem subitis aut obruit undis 60aut scidit, et medias fecit..."