cecidistis
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. perf. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
- C
Eumenes
Cornelius Nepos
"...animo si isto eras, cur non in proelio cecidisti potius, quam in potestatem inimici venires?' Huic Eumenes `Utinam..." - M
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...maximum, sed quo nihil maius est. "Matrem tuam cecidisti: quid dicam amplius? Matrem tuam cecidisti..." - P
Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...thalamos ausum incestare novercae. vos etiam, gemini, Rutulis cecidistis in arvis, Daucia, Laride Thymberque, simillima proles, indiscreta suis..." - T
Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...igitur Gallicis oneratos armis, sicut in acie Antiochi cecidistis, uictos uictores, caedetis. Magis uereor, ne parum inde gloriae..."