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
- T
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..." - L
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..." - T
Liber XXX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ictum utrimque coniciebant hastas, nec pila ab antesignanis cessabant donec undique incidentibus telis exacti ex Romana acie..." - T
Liber III
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...parvaque certamina in summam totius profecerant spei. Nec cessabant Sabini, feroces ab re priore anno bene gesta, lacessere..."