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
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...praeclare cum diutina repraesentatione non "caesus est", sed: "caedebatur" inquit "virgis in medio foro Messanae civis Romanus..."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..."
