consectabantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →consector, consectari, consectatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
seek, pursue, make for (eagerly); research into; imitate, follow example of;; hunt down, overtake, seek out (to destroy); attack/inveigh against; persecute;
pl. imperf. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...pira lecta. et manuum mira freti virtute pedumque consectabantur silvestria saecla ferarum missilibus saxis et magno pondere clavae..."Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...armaturae Lusitani peritique earum regionum cetrati citerioris Hispaniae consectabantur; quibus erat proclive tranare flumen, quod consuetudo eorum omnium..."Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...coeperat. armati per urbem victores implacabili odio victos consectabantur: plenae caedibus viae, cruenta fora templaque, passim trucidatis..."