caedebatur
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. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- A
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...praeclare cum diutina repraesentatione non "caesus est", sed: "caedebatur" inquit "virgis in medio foro Messanae civis Romanus..." - M
Liber XI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...mulierculam Verris effingenda est, aut in illa "caedebatur in medio foro Messanae" motus laterum qualis esse ad verbera..."