cadens
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cado, cadere, cecidi, casus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fall, sink, drop, plummet, topple; be slain, die; end, cease, abate; decay;
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
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Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...fronde carentesadmisere diem, propulsaque robore densosustinuit se silua cadens. gemuere uidentes 445Gallorum populi, muris sed clausa iuuentusexultat; quis..." - M
Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...templa furit, nullaque exire uetante 155materia magnamque cadens magnamque reuertensdat stragem late sparsosque recolligit ignes.hae ducibus causae; suberant..." - T
Liber III
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...nimbis aspergunt neque nix acri concreta pruina cana cadens violat semper[que] innubilus aether integit et large diffuso..." - L
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...loco nauigant tormenti modo missi; nec mergit illos cadens unda sed planis aquis tradit. [2,7] Primum incrementum..." - L
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...speculum est. Ergo stillicidia illa infinita, quae imber cadens defert, totidem specula sunt, totidem solis facies habent..." - L
Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...Libycis terit feruens area messibus, quem non concutiet cadens obliqui uia fulminis, non Eurus rapiens mare aut saeuo..." - L
Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...huius abrupit latus edax uetustas; illa, iam fessa cadens radice, fulta pendet aliena trabe. * * * 537a amara bacas laurus..." - M
Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...secundisseruauit fortuna pares. iam sparserat Haemobruma niues gelidoque cadens Atlantis Olympo,instabatque dies qui dat noua nomina fastis..."