ceciderint
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cado, cadere, cecidi, casus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fall, sink, drop, plummet, topple; be slain, die; end, cease, abate; decay;; chop, hew, cut out/down/to pieces; strike, smite, murder; slaughter; sodomize;
pl. futperf. act. ind. 3rdpl. perf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...proxima quaeque consumat; quae si quando exesa ceciderint, tunc sequi motum earum partium quae subiectis adminiculis destitutae labant..."Liber XI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...proavique hostilium nationum duces exercitus nostros ferro vique ceciderint, divum Iulium apud Alesiam obsederint. recentia haec: quid..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...decus omne Cheruscorum, illius consiliis gesta quae prospere ceciderint testabatur: vaecordem Arminium et rerum nescium alienam gloriam..."Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...omnes legati vestri aut militum manibus aut hostium ceciderint. ite, nuntiate Vespasiano vel, quod propius est, Civili..."