Significatio vocis devoro | Babel Free

Definitiones

1. to swallow, gulp down, or devour; enjoy
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2. to swallow down, repress, suppress, check, bear with patience
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3. to absorb
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4. to consume
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Exempla

“at vobis male sit, malae tenebrae”

Yet let it be badly for you, evil shadows of Orcus, who devour everything beautiful.

“haec ubi rēx didicit, lacrimās intrōrsus obortās”

When the king learned these things, he swallows down the tears which had arisen within, and keeps the wound enclosed in his heart. (Romulus and Remus: In Ovid’s version of the death of Remus, Romulus represses his emotion when he learns Remus has been killed by Celer (builder).)

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