claudebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →claudeo, claudere, clausi, clausus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
limp, stumble/falter/hesitate; be weak/imperfect, fall short; be lame, hobble;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd - 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. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VII
Aulus Gellius
"...dicit: "In atras" inquit "et profundas tenebras eum claudebant ac diu post, ubi erat visus sol ardentissimus, repente..."XVIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...contentione non sivit; diduxit os, quod iam suprema claudebant, fovit animum, ut longis cruciatibus patientia sufficeret. o dignum..."Liber II
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...duae legiones quae proxime conscriptae erant totum agmen claudebant praesidioque impedimentis erant. Equites nostri cum funditoribus sagittariisque flumen..."Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...Tulingi, qui hominum milibus circiter XV agmen hostium claudebant et novissimis praesidio erant, ex itinere nostros ab latere..."Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...Genus erat hoc pugnae. Expeditae cohortes novissimum agmen claudebant pluresque in locis campestribus subsistebant. Si mons erat ascendendus..."Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...hastatorum prima signa, dein principum erant, triarii postremos claudebant. extra hanc uelut iustam aciem a parte dextra consul..."Liber XXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...euagandum relicto spatio hinc amnis, hinc peditum acies claudebant. In derectum utrimque nitentes, stantibus ac confertis postremo turba..."Liber VIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...principes et hastatos recepissent, extemplo compressis ordinibus velut claudebant vias unoque continenti agmine, iam nulla spe post relicta..."