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
- M
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..." - P
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..." - T
Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...cornu concurrit: dextra omnis acies extra proelium eminens cessabat; collis oppositus arcebat ne aut a fronte..."