vetabat
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;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...munere reductis interdum flagrantissimo sole velis emitti quemquam vetabat, remotoque ordinario apparatu tabidas feras, vilissimos senioque confectos gladiatores..."Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...hanc consuetudine commodata. XV. Nihil autem vetabat et componi materias in hoc idoneas, ut controversiae permixtis salibus fingerentur..."Aeneid II
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...proditione Pelasgi insontem infando indicio, quia bella vetabat, demisere neci, nunc cassum lumine lugent: illi me comitem..."Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...facias hoc' unum ex iudicibus selectis obiciebat, sive vetabat, 'an hoc inhonestum et inutile factu necne sit, addubites..."Liber X
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...civitatis. Ego quia lex sicut ascribi civem alienum vetabat, ita eici e senatu ob hanc causam non iubebat..."