absumpserant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →absumo, absumere, absumpsi, absumptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
spend, waste, squander, use up; take up (time); consume; exhaust, wear out;
pl. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...ipsa dedit, quo tempore Glauci Potniades malis membra absumpsere quadrigae. illas ducit amor trans Gargara transque sonantem Ascanium..."Liber XXXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...oppida regni habere instituit in magna inopia iuniorum. absumpserant enim per multas iam aetates continua bella Macedonas; ipso..."Liber XXXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quadraginta sine ullo conatu sedentes in conspectu hostium absumpserant. Inde spes data Philippo est per Epirotarum gentem temptandae..."Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...veluti] forte oblati populatores Capenatis agri reliquias pugnae absumpsere. Et Veientium refugientes in urbem multi ante portas caesi..."