declinabant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →declino, declinare, declinavi, declinatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
deflect/divert/turnaside/swerve/change direction/deviate/dodge; digress/diverge;; avoid/stray; vary/be different; bend/sink down, subside/decline; lower/descend;; decline/conjugate/inflect (in the same manner/like); change word form, modify;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...agnum immolabat, alius pullum: protinus illae nubes alio declinabant, cum aliquid gustassent sanguinis. [6,3] Hoc rides? Accipe..."Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...armatura et expediti funditores et uelox Cretensis momento declinabant; et eques insequendo tumultum ac pauorem equis camelisque..."Liber XXXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ariete quaterentur muri, non laqueis, ut solet, exceptos declinabant ictus, sed armati frequentes , quidam ignes etiam, quos aggeribus..."