vetamur
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. pres. pass. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber XI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...permittis, puto, pilleata Roma. Risisti; licet ergo, non vetamur. Pallentes procul hinc abite curae; quidquid venerit obvium loquamur..."- M
Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...utilitas, propter eandem causam facere debebimus propter quam vetamur. LXVI. Et Demosthenes autem ad Aeschinen orationem in prohoemio..." - M
IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...ipsa cupiditas ratioque pereundi hoc ipso quo vetamur, adcrescit. felicior mehercules, qui moritur, antequam debeat, antequam velit; paene..."