complebat
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;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...loco sita munde. aras tus, murrinus, omnis odor complebat. haud sordere visust festus dies, Venus, nec tuom fanum..." - G
Liber IV
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...transportandum curaverat,] quas Caesar in aridum subduxerat, aestus complebat, et onerarias, quae ad ancoras erant deligatae, tempestas adflictabat..." - P
Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...miserarentur; secutaque cum parvis liberis coniunx cuncta lamentatione complebat. diversis et contectis vehiculis abduntur, dum Pharasmanis iussa exquirerentur..." - P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...quoque mercatus ditem alioqui coloniam maiore opum specie complebat. ceteri duces in obscuro: Antonium fortuna famaque omnium oculis..." - P
Agricola
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...insurgerent; media campi covinnarius eques strepitu ac discursu complebat. Tum Agricola superante hostium multitudine veritus, ne in frontem..."