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
- P
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..." - P
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..."