caedebat
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;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...esse irarum solent." Et simul ad eum, qui caedebat, conversus: "interim," inquit "dum ego atque hic disputamus..."X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...oculos, nunc siccata frustra ubera querebatur, nunc superstitem caedebat uterum! notabat haec ille deficiens mandabatque morti suae..."Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...quos venerem incertam rapientis more ferarum viribus editior caedebat ut in grege taurus. iura inventa metu iniusti fateare..."