cecini
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;
sg. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Virgil
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE POETIS
"...Mantua me genuit, Calabri rapuere, tenet nunc Parthenope; cecini pascua rura duces. " Heredes fecit ex dimidia parte Valerium..."
Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...30audivere patres; ego iuxta busta profusismatribus atque piis cecini solatia natis,et mihi, cum proprios gemerem defectus..."Liber IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...lusi pastorum audaxque iuventa, Tityre, te patulae cecini sub tegmine fagi..."Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...move! Iovis est mihi saepe potestas dicta prius: cecini plectro graviore Gigantas sparsaque Phlegraeis victricia fulmina campis. nunc..."