vetabantur
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. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...nihil contra morem cuperent, nihil per metum vetabantur. at postquam exui aequalitas et pro modestia ac pudore ambitio..."Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...eoque plures ac, si liceret, vere narraturi, quia vetabantur, atrociora vulgaverant. nec duces hostium augendae famae deerant, captos..."Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...mille praeterea et venire advocationes et emi vetabantur; peractis tamen negotiis permittebatur pecuniam dumtaxat decem milium dare..."