caedebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →caedo, caedere, caecidi, caesus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
chop, hew, cut out/down/to pieces; strike, smite, murder; slaughter; sodomize;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...terram minitanti mente ruebant. et validis socios caedebant dentibus apri tela infracta suo tinguentes sanguine saevi..." - P
Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...gravis aequabat luctus et mutua Mavors funera; caedebant pariter pariterque ruebant victores victique, neque his fuga nota neque..." - T
Liber XXXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...aptauerunt; nam et maiores et magis ramosas arbores caedebant quam quas ferre cum armis miles posset..." - T
Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...tenet nihilo remissiore militum ira quod turbam inermem caedebant quam si periculum par et ardor certaminis eos inritaret..."