tere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tero, terere, trivi, tritus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
rub, wear away, wear out; tread;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...metu et verecundia contracta, adhortationibus fortis, disputationibus teres, miseratione flexa et flebilis et consulto quasi obscurior..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...Hymen Hymenaee io, io Hymen Hymenaee. mitte brachiolum teres, praetextate, puellulae: iam cubile adeat viri. io Hymen Hymenaee..." - P
Metamorphoses II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...apte, collocat, ut limbus totumque adpareat aurum, ut teres in dextra, qua somnos ducit et arcet, virga..." - Q
Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...contemnere honores fortis, et in se ipso totus, teres atque rotundus, externi nequid valeat per leve morari..."