cedebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cedo, cedere, cessi, cessus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
go/pass (from/away); withdraw/retire/leave; step aside/make way; take place of;; grant, concede, yield, submit; fall back/to; happen/result; start (period);
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...validi primum violentis viribus aeris, ne quiquam, quoniam cedebat victa potestas nec poterant pariter durum sufferre laborem..."XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...comedimus, nostros, nam si alienos vellemus, nemo [audebat] cedebat. Nihil est tamen, quod indignari velitis; narravi vobis lucrum..."Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...silebo— ille pedem referens et inutilis inque ligatus cedebat clipeoque inimicum hastile trahebat. proripuit iuvenis seseque immiscuit armis..."Liber III
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...patrum, virtute sua, tribus liberis, quorum nemo Caesoni cedebat magnitudine animi, consilium et modum adhibendo ubi res posceret..."