canebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cano, canere, cani, canitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Later
sing, celebrate, chant; crow; recite; play (music)/sound (horn); foretell;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd - Entry →caneo, canere, canui, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
be/become covered in white; be hoary, be white/gray (with age);
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XX
Aulus Gellius
"...Sicinnium enim genus veteris saltationis fuit. Saltabundi autem canebant, quae nunc stantes canunt. III. Posuit hoc verbum..."Liber IX
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quam observatio carminis, ideoque illud "Fauni vatesque canebant". CXVI. Ergo quem in poemate locum habet versificatio..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...laudes fortium canebantur quaque ipsi fortes canebant: nec psalteria et spadicas, etiam virginibus probis recusanda, sed cognitionem rationis..."
Liber Tertius
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...saevis erroribus implicet urbem. Nox erat et leni canebant aequora sulco et iam prona leves spargebant sidera somnos..."Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...sociare procorum fas erat, idque omnes divique hominesque canebant. victus amore tui, cognato sanguine victus coniugis et maestae..."Aeneid VII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...visu mirabile ferri: namque fore inlustrem fama fatisque canebant ipsam, sed populo magnum portendere bellum. At rex sollicitus..."Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Romanus posset; id enim illi loco dicandum vates canebant, si rem publicam Romanam perpetuam esse vellent..."Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...minas; motique ita numinis causam nullam aliam vates canebant publice privatimque nunc extis, nunc per aues consulti, quam..."
