cantabant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →canto, cantare, cantavi, cantatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Arts
sing; play (roles/music); recite; praise, celebrate; forewarn; enchant, bewitch;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- D
Satura XV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...enim omnia quidam pro uita facienda putant] sed Cantaber unde Stoicus, antiqui praesertim aetate Metelli? nunc totus Graias..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...quidem tam molesto tacebant officio, sed obiter cantabant. Ego experiri volui an tota familia cantaret, itaque potionem poposci..." - P
Ecloga X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Ecologues
"...apes nec fronde capellae." Tristis at ille: "Tamen cantabitis, Arcades, inquit, montibus haec uestris, soli cantare periti Arcades..."