crescebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →cresco, crescere, crevi, cretus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
come forth/to be; arise/spring (from); be born; become visible/great; grow (up);; thrive, increase (size/number/honor), multiply; ascend; attain, be promoted;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber IV
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...declinibus undisaestus agat refluoque mari nudentur harenae.iamque relabenti crescebant litora ponto:missa ratis prono defertur lapsa profundo 430et..."Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...densabant procul a terris fulgentia templa. sidebant campi, crescebant montibus altis ascensus; neque enim poterant subsidere saxa..."APOCOLOCYNTOSIS
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...Phoebus breviore via contraxerat arcum lucis, et obscuri crescebant tempora somni, iamque suum victrix augebat Cynthia regnum..."Liber VI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...urbe vis patrum in dies miseriaeque plebis crescebant, cum eo ipso, quod necesse erat solvi, facultas solvendi impediretur..."Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...animi tantum in dies sed etiam vires crescebant. Nec Romanis solum eo convenientibus ex agris qui aut proelio..."