valerem
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");
sg. imperf. act. subj. 1st
Examples
- T
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...amans abeuntis egeo. ARG. Vale. PHIL. Aliquanto amplius valerem, si hic maneres. ARG. Salve. PHIL. Salvere me iubes..." - P
Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...feratis, me quoque fata regunt. quae si mutare valerem, nec nostrum seri curvarent Aeacon anni, perpetuumque aevi florem..."