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
Poenulus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...loco sita munde. aras tus, murrinus, omnis odor complebat. haud sordere visust festus dies, Venus, nec tuom fanum..."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..."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..."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..."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..."