confitebantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →confiteor, confiteri, confessus sum:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
confess (w/ACC), admit, acknowledge, reveal, disclose; concede, allow; denote;
pl. imperf. ind. 3rd
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...adfulsisse verum pudicitiae amorisque exemplum omnis ordinis homines confitebantur, cum interim imperator provinciae latrones iussit crucibus affigi secundum..."Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...quem] parum tragicum putabant, eruditione ac nitore praestare confitebantur. XCIX. In comoedia maxime claudicamus. Licet Varro Musas, Aeli..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...essem: "pepigi"; nam id quidem dixisse summos auctores confitebantur, rationem tamen negabant permittere, quia prima positio "paciscor..."