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
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..."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..."