claudant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →claudo, claudere, clausi, clausus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
close, shut, block up; conclude, finish; blockade, besiege; enclose; confine;; limp, stumble/falter/hesitate; be weak/imperfect, fall short; be lame, hobble;
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber VIII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...extructo monte quiescant, 695cum Ptolemaeorum manes seriemque pudendampyramides claudant indignaque Mausolea,litora Pompeium feriunt, truncusque uadosishuc illuc iactatur..."Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...permixtosque et hostes urbem inuasuros ni propere portas claudant. ita exclusos Romanos praebuere hosti ad caedem; Atinius tamen..."