creabantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →creo, creare, creavi, creatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
create/bring into being/make; procreate; beget/sire; give birth to;; produce/bear fruit; bring about; cause to grow; elect, appoint, invest;; institute; conjure up; (PASS) be born/spring from; be home/native of;
pl. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Hannibal
Cornelius Nepos
"...Romae consules, sic Carthagine quotannis annui bini reges creabantur. In eo magistratu pari diligentia se Hannibal praebuit..."Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...interregno orta contentio est, quod duo patricii consules creabantur, intercedentibusque tribunis interrex Fabius aiebat in duodecim tabulis legem..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...exspirante iam libertate per vim ac tumultum creabantur, sed quibus sepositis et absentibus, in rura sua consulatus ferebantur..."