cessabant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cesso, cessare, cessavi, cessatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
be remiss/inactive; hold back, leave off, delay, cease from; rest; be free of;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...funera respectans animam amittebat ibidem. quippe etenim nullo cessabant tempore apisci ex aliis alios avidi contagia morbi, lanigeras..."Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...excluserat: par erat alterius ac sui cura. Arma cessabant incruentaeque humano sanguine manus odium omne in feras verterant..."Liber XXX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ictum utrimque coniciebant hastas, nec pila ab antesignanis cessabant donec undique incidentibus telis exacti ex Romana acie..."Liber III
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...parvaque certamina in summam totius profecerant spei. Nec cessabant Sabini, feroces ab re priore anno bene gesta, lacessere..."