tricas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →trico, tricare, tricavi, tricatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
behave in evasive manner; trifle/delay/dally; cause trouble; pull/play tricks;
sg. pres. act. ind. 2nd - Entry →trica, tricae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Cassell's Latin Dictionary
trifles (pl.), nonsense; vexation, troubles;
acc. pl.
Examples
- T
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...indicetque? eloquere propere celeriter. LABR. Nummos trecentos. GRIP. Tricas. L. Quadringentos. G. Tramas putidas. L. Quingentos. G. Cassam..." - T
Persa
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...modo me hodie versavisti, ut me in tricas coniecisti, quo modo de Persa manus mi aditast? TOX. Iurgium..." - T
Mostellaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...certe hariolus. DAN. Quin tu istas mittis tricas? TR. Quin quid vis cedo. DAN. Vbi Philolaches..." - T
Curculio
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...virginem. Cvrc. Quod argentum, quas tu mihi tricas narras? quam tu virginem me reposcis? Ther. Quam ab lenone..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...libentissime spectaret, petauristarios et cornicines; reliqua, animalia, acroemata, tricas meras esse." Nam et comoedos, inquit, emeram, sed malui..."