consumebatur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →consumo, consumere, consumpsi, consumptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
burn up, destroy/kill; put end to; reduce/wear away; annul; extinguish (right);; devour/swallow up/consume/eat/use up/exhaust/expend; spend; squander/waste;
sg. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VIII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...atque iumenta, sed etiam magna hostium multitudo siti consumebatur. Quo malo perterriti oppidani cupas sebo, pice, scandulis complent..."de Bello Africo
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...loco Scipio commorabatur et tempus diei in otio consumebatur, Caesar equitum turmas suorum iubet in hostium equitatum..."