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
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..."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..."Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...suae, postremo ad preces lacrimasque effusus, genibus praetoris accidens in potestatem sese dedit. primo bonum animum habere iussus..."Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...strepitum molientium portam exaudiri prohibuit, lentior deinde aequaliorque accidens auribus magnam partem hominum sopiuit. postquam portam tenebant, cornicines..."Liber X
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...accepta nuper clade stimulabat, tum concitatior accidens clamor ab increscente certamine. urgent itaque alii alios hortanturque signiferos..."Liber VIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...tergo pedestrem aciem adoritur. Clamor inde novus accidens et Samnitium terruit animos et dictator, ubi respectantes hostium antesignanos..."Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...subsidium rei familiari oraret, deprecabundus et genibus principis accidens prosterneret incautum premeretque, animi validus et corpore ingens..."Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...imperatoris reserat, filium eius sinu complexus et genibus accidens. causam confusionis quaerenti, non se proprio metu..."
