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
- T
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..." - M
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..." - P
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..." - T
Liber III
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...patrum, virtute sua, tribus liberis, quorum nemo Caesoni cedebat magnitudine animi, consilium et modum adhibendo ubi res posceret..."