fatum
Short definition (Lewis & Short): that which is said, an utterance.—Hence
Full entry: Lexicon.
41 occurrences of this form in 21 works (dictionary form exactly as written, accents ignored, v/u and j/i as single letters; inflected forms not included).
Works using this form
- Letters to Lucilius
- Philippics
- Metamorphoses
- Satires
- Epigrams
- Medea
- Aeneid
- The Golden Ass
- Against Catiline (Catilinarians)
- Letters to Atticus
- Satires
- Civil War
- Gallic War
- History of Rome (Books 1–10)
- The Conspiracy of Catiline
- On Tranquility of Mind
- On the Shortness of Life
- Agricola
- Annals
- Histories
- Georgics
Example passages
…Dicet aliquis: Quid mihi prodest philosophia, si fatum est? Quid prodest, si deus rector est? Quid prodest, si casus imperat? Nam et mutari certa non possunt et nihil praeparari potest adversus incerta; sed aut consilium meum occupavit deus decrevitque……
……id nec praestare poteram—sed ut, si quid mihi humanitus accidisset—multa autem impendere videntur praeter naturam etiam praeterque fatum—huius tamen diei vocem testem rei publicae relinquerem meae perpetuae erga se voluntatis.…
……quam dis votisque reliquit. Quid faciat? multum caeli post terga relictum, ante oculos plus est! animo metitur utrumque, et modo quos illi fatum contingere non est, prospicit occasus, interdum respicit ortus:…