complebantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →compleo, complere, complevi, completus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fill (up/in); be big enough to fill; occupy space, crowd; furnish/supply/man;; finish, complete, perfect; make pregnant; fulfill, make up, complete, satisfy;
pl. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Amphitruo
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...fugam; ibi nostris animus additust: vortentibus Telobois telis complebantur corpora, ipsusque Amphitruo regem Pterelam sua obtruncavit manu. haec..." - G
Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...milites in exteriorem vallum tela iaciebant, fossaeque aggere complebantur, et legionarii interioris munitionis defensores scalis admotis tormentis cuiusque..." - P
Liber XVI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...occurreret oculis. sed domus corporibus exanimis, itinera funeribus complebantur; non sexus, non aetas periculo vacua; servitia perinde..." - P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Graecas per urbes licentia atque impunitas asyla statuendi; complebantur templa pessimis servitiorum; eodem subsidio obaerati adversum creditores suspectique..."