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
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...amans abeuntis egeo. ARG. Vale. PHIL. Aliquanto amplius valerem, si hic maneres. ARG. Salve. PHIL. Salvere me iubes..."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..."