Meaning of tempestas | Babel Free

Definitions

1. portion, point, or space of time; time, season, period
   declension-3
2. weather (good or bad)
   declension-3
3. storm, tempest, gale
   declension-3
4. storm, tempest, attack, commotion, disturbance, calamity, misfortune
   declension-3, figuratively

Equivalents

Examples

“… Hic vastō rēx Aeolus antrō luctantēs ventōs tempestātēsque sonōrās imperiō premit ac vinclīs et carcere frēnat. Here in a vast cave, King Aeolus – struggling stormwinds! and resounding tempests! –”

by [his] command represses, both with chains and a prison [he] restrains. (Through evocative word-sounds the poet repeats the consonants “s” and “t” to portray fantastical noises caused by trapped stormwinds. See literary consonance; Aeolus (son of Hippotes).)

“Tametsī videō, sī, meā vōce perterritus, īre in exilium animum indūxerīs, quanta tempestās invidiae nōbīs, sī minus in praesēns tempus, recentī memoriā scelerum tuōrum, at in posteritātem impendeat.”

Although I see, if, terrified by my words, you bring your mind to go into exile, how great a storm of unpopularity threatens us — if so less at the present time, due to the recent memory of your crimes, then at least for the future.

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