certabat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →certo, certare, certavi, certatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
vie (with), contest, contend/struggle (at law/politics), dispute; fight, strive;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...quassas stabilire turres, ferreis portas cohibere claustris ille certabat, pauidusque pinnis anxiae noctis uigil incubabat - peior est bello..." 
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...egregium mirata decus cui gloria patrum et generis certabat honos, tellure cadentem excepi fovique sinu; nec colla genasque..."- G
BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...strenuo virtute, cum modesto pudore, cum innocente abstinentia certabat; esse quam videri bonus malebat: ita, quo minus petebat..." - G
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...alacribus saltu, cum velocibus cursu, cum validis vecte certabat. Nam Sullam consulem de reditu eius legem ferentem..."