carpebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →carpo, carpere, carpsi, carptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
seize/pick/pluck/gather/browse/tear off; graze/crop; tease/pull out/card (wool);; separate/divide, tear down; carve; despoil/fleece; pursue/harry; consume/erode;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- P
Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...habet iustumque memorque, precatur. Nox erat et placidum carpebant fessa soporem corpora per terras, silvaeque et saeva quierant..." - P
Liber IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...fluminis alti sensit. Eam circum Milesia vellera Nymphae carpebant hyali saturo fucata colore, drymoque Xanthoque Ligeaque Phyllodoceque, caesariem..." - G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...roseae niveo residebant vertice vittae, aeternumque manus carpebant rite laborem. laeva colum molli lana retinebat amictum, dextera..." - P
Amores III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...livor erat; utque procul vidit carpentes pabula tauros — carpebant tauri pabula laeta procul — illuc se rapuit gregibusque inmiscuit..." - T
Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...uniuersi quam ea quae ad quemque pertinerent singuli carpebant. qui exulum coniuges in matrimonio habebant aut ex bonis..." - T
Liber XXXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...adprobantibus soli Aetoli decretum decem legatorum clam mussantes carpebant: litteras inanes uana specie libertatis adumbratas esse. cur enim..."