deciderunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →decido, decidere, decidi, decisus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
detach, cut off/out/down; fell; cut/notch/carve to delineate; flog thoroughly;; make explicit; put an end to, bring to conclusion, settle/decide/agree (on);; fall/drop/hang/flow down/off/over; sink/drop; fail, fall in ruin; end up; die;
pl. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...mirum, si in talis disposituras deciderunt quoque et in talis venere meatus, qualibus haec rerum geritur nunc summa..."Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...sine motu eius cui haesit absciditur); deinde, cum deciderunt, solido exceptae resiliunt pilae more (quae, cum cecidit, exultat..."Galba
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...caelo Caesarum aede, capita omnibus simul statuis deciderunt, Augusti etiam sceptrum e manibus excussum est. II. Neroni Galba..."