accidebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →accido, accidere, accidi, accisus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
cut, cut into/down/up, hack, hew, fell; overthrow, destroy; cut short; weaken;; happens, turns out, befalls; fall upon; come to pass, occur;; fall upon/down/to/at or near, descend, alight; happen, occur; happen to (DAT);
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...verba? quemquem visco offenderant, tam crebri ad terram accidebant quam pira. 484-485 ut quisque acciderat, eum necabam..."Liber XXXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...auctoritate sua motos esse, cum, quae tum maxime accidebant, casura praemonens a furioso incepto eos deterreret, tamen..."Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...clamor circumlatus exterruit, dein tela ab omni parte accidebant; coeuntibusque Etruscis, iam continenti agmine armatorum saepti, quo magis..."