Definitions

Sorry, no definitions found. Check out and contribute to the discussion of this word!

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word uerbis.

Examples

  • Videat ecclesia, iudicet orbis terrarum quibus magis obserandum sit regnum celorum, uobis, qui contradicitis uerbis celorum, an paruulis, de quibus ipse rex ait: talium est enim regnum celorum. back

    A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

  • = For the use of mythological figures as character types, compare _RA_ 589 'semper habe Pyladen aliquem qui curet Oresten' and Martial VI xi 9-10 'ut praestem Pyladen, aliquis mihi praestet Oresten./hoc non fit uerbis, Marce: ut ameris, ama'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • = _Complecti_ in the weak sense 'include, take in' is found in Ovid only here and at _Tr_ I v 55 'non tamen idcirco _complecterer_ omnia uerbis'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • If 44 were taken in isolation, _leuatis_, which most editors print, would be acceptable enough; compare _Tr_ IV i 49 'iure deas igitur ueneror mala nostra _leuantes_' and _EP_ III vi 13-14 'nec scelus admittas si consoleris amicum,/mollibus et uerbis aspera fata _leues_'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • GRATATVS = has the force of a present participle, as is shown by _cum dulcibus ... uerbis_; André mistranslates 'après t'avoir félicité, je t'embrasserai avec des mots tendres'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • = Here Ovid says that words of comfort should not be offered too late; at _RA_ 127-30 he says they should not be offered too early: 'quis matrem, nisi mentis inops, in funere nati/flere uetet? non hoc illa monenda loco est./cum dederit lacrimas animumque impleuerit aegrum,/ille dolor uerbis emoderandus erit'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • From the classical period compare Sen _Apocol_ 11 3 'ad summam, tria uerba cito dicat, et seruum me ducat', Sen _Ep_ 40 9, and Quint IX iv 84 'haec omnia in tribus uerbis'; Camps sees _tres_ as having the same indefinite meaning at Prop II xiii 25-26 'sat mea sit magno [_Phillimore_: sit magna _uel_ sat magna est _codd_] si tres sint pompa libelli/quos ego Persephonae maxima dona feram'.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Other instances of the word in Ovid at ix 13 _'gratatusque_ darem cum dulcibus oscula uerbis ', _Her_ VI 119' nunc etiam peperi; _gratare_ ambobus, Iason! ',

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • Heinsii et aliorum correctiones minus necessarias in uerbis Ouidianis, quas accuratior codicum inter se comparatio, opus sane immensi laboris, extrudet '.

    The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • QVIS potis est dignum pollenti pectore carmen condere pro rerum maiestate hisque repertis? quisue ualet uerbis tantum qui fingere laudes pro meritis eius possit qui talia nobis pectore parta suo quaesitaque praemia liquit?

    The World's Conquerors Lucretius 1912

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.