cessabat
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;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...adfectus, et de quinque rerum sensibus pars una cessabat, et tenebras, etiam salvis luminibus alternans, continua nox duxerat..."Amores III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...decepti vota colentis erant. diva potens frugum silvis cessabat in altis; deciderant longae spicea serta comae. sola fuit..."Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...cornu concurrit: dextra omnis acies extra proelium eminens cessabat; collis oppositus arcebat ne aut a fronte..."