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
Liber XXXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...apparatum noui belli Romanis ne ab Antiocho quidem cessabatur. tres eum ciuitates tenebant, Zmyrna et Alexandria Troas..."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..."