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
- G
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..." - M
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..." - P
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..." - Q
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..." - G
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..."