accidens
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);
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part. - Entry →accidens, accidentis:
Neuter · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
accidental happening, chance event, contingency; accident, circumstance;
acc. sg.nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
- L
Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...putant eiusdem condicionis esse. Incorporale est et accidens alteri, id est sapientiae; itaque nec facit quicquam nec prodest..." - L
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...inhorruimus, tremor sequitur, sic terras quoque spiritus extrinsecus accidens quassat". Quod nullo modo potest fieri. Algere enim debet..." - T
Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...suae, postremo ad preces lacrimasque effusus, genibus praetoris accidens in potestatem sese dedit. primo bonum animum habere iussus..." - T
Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...strepitum molientium portam exaudiri prohibuit, lentior deinde aequaliorque accidens auribus magnam partem hominum sopiuit. postquam portam tenebant, cornicines..." - T
Liber X
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...accepta nuper clade stimulabat, tum concitatior accidens clamor ab increscente certamine. urgent itaque alii alios hortanturque signiferos..." - T
Liber VIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...tergo pedestrem aciem adoritur. Clamor inde novus accidens et Samnitium terruit animos et dictator, ubi respectantes hostium antesignanos..." - P
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...subsidium rei familiari oraret, deprecabundus et genibus principis accidens prosterneret incautum premeretque, animi validus et corpore ingens..." - P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...imperatoris reserat, filium eius sinu complexus et genibus accidens. causam confusionis quaerenti, non se proprio metu..."
