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lacessitus

lacessitus is a Latin form of lacesso, meaning “provoke, challenge; harass, attack”. It is the perfect passive participle nominative singular masculine.

Found 25 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, De Imperio Cn. Pompei Ad Quirites 4: … bus atque sociis a duobus potentissimis adfertur regibus, Mithridate et Tigrane, quorum alter relictus, alter lacessitus occasionem sibi ad occupandam Asiam oblatam esse arbitratur. equitibus Romanis, honestissimis viris, adferunt …

All forms of lacesso (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.