cessabatur
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. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber XXXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...apparatum noui belli Romanis ne ab Antiocho quidem cessabatur. tres eum ciuitates tenebant, Zmyrna et Alexandria Troas..." - P
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...frequentanti Neroni ne inter voluptates quidem a sceleribus cessabatur. isdem quippe illis diebus Torquatus Silanus mori adigitur, quia..."