tergus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tergus, tergoris:
Neuter · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Cassell's Latin Dictionary
back; skin, hide, leather;
acc. sg.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- L
Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...uiret, longum rubenti spargitur fuco latus; tum pone tergus ultima in monstrum coit facies et ingens belua immensam..." - P
Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...Gygen excipit, hinc raptas fugientibus ingerit hastas in tergus, Iuno viris animumque ministrat. addit Halyn comitem et confixa..."