About Report a problem

Menu

arrigo

arrigo, to set up, raise, erect

BWL

arrectis auribus adstant
they stand with their ears upright

Frieze-Dennison Vergil

arrigō, rēxī, rēctus, 3, a.: to raise up; erect; bristle up, 10.726; (fig.), to excite, rouse; p., arrēctus, a, um, standing up, rising; erect, 5.426; bristling, 11.754; attentive, 1.152; animated, roused, encouraged, 1.579; ardent, intent; intense, 5.138; in fearful expectation, 12.731. (ad and regō)

Could not find arrectos in Logeion dictionaries.

arrectos Verb: perfect passive participle masculine accusative plural of arrigo

See arrectos in Morpho

ar-rĭgo (adr-, Dietsch, Halm; arr-, Fleck., Rib., Weissenb.), rexi, rectum, 3, v. a. [rego], to set up, raise, erect (not used by Cic., but for it he employs erigere).
  • I Lit.: leo comas arrexit, Verg. A. 10, 726; so id. ib. 4, 280: aurīs, Plaut. Rud. 5, 2, 6 (1293); so Ter. And. 933; Ov. M. 15, 516; Verg. A. 2, 303 (translatio a pecudibus, Don. ad Ter. l. c.; cf. opp. demittere aures, Hor. C. 2, 13, 35): linguam, Mart. 11, 62, 10: tollit se arrectum quadrupes, Verg. A. 10, 892; so id. ib. 5, 426; 2, 206 et saep.—
  • II Trop., to encourage, animate, rouse, excite: eos non paulum oratione suā Marius adrexerat, Sall. J. 84, 4: cum spes arrectae juvenum, when hope was aroused, Verg. G. 3, 105: arrectae stimulis haud mollibus irae, id. A. 11, 452: Etruria atque omnes reliquiae belli adrectae, are in commotion, are roused, Sall. H. 1, 19, p. 220 Gerl.: adrectā omni civitate, excited with wonder, Tac. A. 3, 11.—Esp. freq. arrigere aliquem or animos, to incite, rouse the mind or courage to something, to direct to something (sometimes with ad aliquam rem): vetus certamen animos adrexit, Sall. C. 39, 3 Kritz: sic animis eorum adrectis, id. J. 68, 4; 86, 1 al.; Liv. 45, 30: arrexere animos Itali, Verg. A. 12, 251: his animum arrecti dictis, id. ib. 1, 579: arrecti ad bellandum animi sunt, Liv. 8, 37 (cf. erigo).
  • —Hence, arrectus (adr-), a, um, P. a., set upright; hence, steep, precipitous (rare): pleraque Alpium ab Italiā sicut breviora, ita arrectiora sunt, Liv. 21, 35 fin.: saxa arrectiora, Sol. c. 14.

Saved

Recent