capiebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →capio, capere, cepi, captus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
take hold, seize; grasp; take bribe; arrest/capture; put on; occupy; captivate;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...gravia et perplexa, coibant in medio atque imas capiebant omnia sedes; quae quanto magis inter se perplexa coibant..." - P
Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...luminibus cinctum caput Argus habebat inde suis vicibus capiebant bina quietem, cetera servabant atque in statione manebant. constiterat..." - P
Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...neci nullis de more feruntur funeribus (neque enim capiebant funera portae): aut inhumata premunt terras aut dantur..." - P
Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...luminibus cinctum caput Argus habebat inde suis vicibus capiebant bina quietem, cetera servabant atque in statione manebant. constiterat..." - G
de Bello Hispaniensi
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...potestatem faciebat, sed ex grumo… Excelsum tumulum capiebant, usque eo ut necessario cogeretur iniquum locum subire..." - T
Liber XL
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...procedebant; tum nisi exsatiati cibo uinoque arma non capiebant, dispersi inordinati exibant, ut quibus prope certum esset hostes..." - T
Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...usquam certaverant proelio nec tum impetu aut vi capiebant urbem, sine ira, sine ardore animorum ingressi postero..." - G
BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...improviso metu ac tamen virtutis memores aut arma capiebant aut capientis alios ab hostibus defensabant; pars equos escendere..."