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
Eumenes
Cornelius Nepos
"...animo si isto eras, cur non in proelio cecidisti potius, quam in potestatem inimici venires?' Huic Eumenes `Utinam..."Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...maximum, sed quo nihil maius est. "Matrem tuam cecidisti: quid dicam amplius? Matrem tuam cecidisti..."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..."Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...igitur Gallicis oneratos armis, sicut in acie Antiochi cecidistis, uictos uictores, caedetis. Magis uereor, ne parum inde gloriae..."