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
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..."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..."Liber XXXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...aptauerunt; nam et maiores et magis ramosas arbores caedebant quam quas ferre cum armis miles posset..."Liber XXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...tenet nihilo remissiore militum ira quod turbam inermem caedebant quam si periculum par et ardor certaminis eos inritaret..."