decidissent
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. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- C
Eumenes
Cornelius Nepos
"...inter se complexi in terram ex equis decidissent, ut facile intellegi possent inimica mente contendisse animoque magis etiam..." - L
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...olim sub illo in eum statum res humanas decidisse, ut inter misericordiae exempla haberentur occisi: non tamen ferro..." - P
Liber XII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...cruore sacratum. sed tunc qui ea vincla admovebat, decidisse simulans genua Mithridatis invadit ipsumque prosternit; simulque concursu plurium..." - P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...quamquam ad modestiam flexae pro superbissimis accipiuntur. huc decidisse cuncta ut ne iuvenis quidem tanto honore accepto adiret..."