vetabitis
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. fut. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
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..."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..."
