caterva

Definitiones

1. a crowd, a band, a troop, a retinue
   declension-1, feminine
2. a group, flock, pack (of animals)
   declension-1, feminine

Aequivalentia

Exempla

“rēgīna ad templum fōrmā pulcherrima Dīdō incessit magnā iuvenum stīpante catervā The queen [arrives] at the temple – the exceedingly beautiful Dido⟳ – striding [in all her majesty] with a large retinue of youths escorting [her].”

“Miserum funestumque spectāmen aspexī: Thrasyleōnem nostrum catervīs canum saevientium cīnctum atque obsessum multīsque numerō morsibus laniātum.”

I witnessed a pitiable and dismal spectacle: our Thrasyleon was surrounded and besieged by packs of fierce dogs and wounded by a great number of bites.

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