cecinerunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cano, canere, cecini, cantus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sing, celebrate, chant; crow; recite; play (music)/sound (horn); foretell;
pl. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...Quia uero uerius nihil est. Si aues futura cecinerunt, non potest hoc auspicium fulmine irritum fieri..."Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...augurio monstrum; docuit post exitus ingens seraque terrifici cecinerunt omina vates. namque volans liquidis in nubibus arsit harundo..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...fusi. talia praefantes quondam felicia Pelei carmina divino cecinerunt pectore Parcae. praesentes namque ante domos invisere castas heroum..."Liber XXX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...inter immixtos alienigenis agerent, tubae cornuaque ab Romanis cecinerunt, tantusque clamor ortus ut elephanti in suos, sinistrum maxime..."