leto

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

lēto (lētho), āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. [letum],

to kill, slay : Lycurgiden letavit, Ov. Ib. 505: Paris hunc letat, Verg. Cul. 323: letata corpora, Ov. M. 3, 55 (the conjectural reading letatus, Cic. Leg. 3, 8, 19, is very dub.; v. Orell. ad loc., where leto datus is proposed; B. and K., necatus).

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