tempestivus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tempestivus, tempestiva, tempestivum:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
seasonable; opportune, timely; physically in one's prime, ripe (for marriage);
nom. sg. (m.)
Examples
Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...coegerat iras, cum, bene fundatis opibus crescentis Iuli, tempestivus erat caelo Cythereius heros. ambieratque Venus superos colloque parentis..."Dialogus de Oratoribus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...singulorum altiorem inter eos esse sermonem, "num parum tempestivus" inquit "interveni secretum consilium et causae alicuius meditationem tractantibus..."