cecidi
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;
sg. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber VIII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...quaeram, 265ingentis praestate animos. non omnis in aruisEmathiis cecidi, nec sic mea fata premunturut nequeam releuare caput cladesque..."Liber VI
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...pecces, exitiose, uide. Saepe ego lasciuom Martem furibunda cecidi, legitimos esset cum uagus ante toros; sed postquam meus..."Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...irae data dum propero. Ferro uulnera impresso dedi, cecidi ad aras, caede uotiua focos placaui, et artus, corpora..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...timore nisi ego? Gladium tamen strinxi et umbras cecidi, donec ad villam amicae meae pervenirem. In larvam intravi..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...erat dubium sic "pepigi" nos dicere ut "cecidi". XII. Sed meminerimus non per omnia duci analogiae posse rationem..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...hunc ego, si placet Dionae, protelo rigida mea cecidi. LVII. ad Gaium Iulium Caesarem Pulcre convenit improbis cinaedis..."