vetabant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →veto, vetare, vetavi, vetatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Age:
- Late
- Field:
- Poetry
forbid, prohibit; reject, veto; be an obstacle to; prevent;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- P
Aeneid VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...armare fuisset; nec pater omnipotens Troiam nec fata vetabant stare decemque alios Priamum superesse per annos. et nunc..." - P
Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...pellite molles et patrium retinete decus! si fata vetabant stare diu Thebas, utinam tormenta virique moenia diruerent, ferrumque..."