valeamus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →valeo, valere, valui, valitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
be strong/powerful/influential/healthy; prevail; [vale => goodbye/farewell];; farewell, goodbye, adieu (the Roman equivalent of "Live long and prosper");
pl. pres. act. subj. 1st
Examples
Liber XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...possumus esse tam graciles, simus fortiores: subtilitate vincimur, valeamus pondere: proprietas penes illos est certior, copia vincamus. XXXVII..."Liber Quartus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...vitam agere possimus, si nihil interesse nostra putemus, valeamus aegrine simus, vacemus an cruciemur dolore, frigus, famem propulsare..."Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...autem difficile non est, cum tantum equitatu valeamus." Simul denuntiavit, ut essent animo parati in posterum et, quoniam..."