defecerat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deficio, deficere, defeci, defectus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fail, disappoint, let down; leave without a sufficiency; cease to be available;; (PASS) be left without/wanting, lack; have shortcomings; L:come to nothing;; fail/falter; run short/out; grow weak/faint; come to end; revolt/rebel, defect;; pass away; become extinct, die/fade out; subside/sink; suffer eclipse, wane;
sg. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Timotheus
Cornelius Nepos
"...gerere desisset, bello Athenienses undique premi sunt coepti. Defecerat Samus, descierat Hellespontus, Philippus iam tum valens, Macedo, multa..."Conon
Cornelius Nepos
"...Tissapherne, qui ex intimis regis ab amicitia eius defecerat et cum Lacedaemoniis coierat societatem, hunc adversus Pharnabazus habitus..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...ancilla, simulque et lacrimas commodabat lugenti, et quotienscumque defecerat positum in monumento lumen renovabat. "Una igitur in tota..."Vitellius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...provinciae exercitu, qui prius a Galba ad senatum defecerat, cognomen Germanici delatum ab universis cupide recepit, Augusti distulit..."Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...signat sua crimina gemma, quam tinxit lacrimis (linguam defecerat umor): deque suis unum famulis pudibunda vocavit, et pavidum..."Liber VIII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...fuga cum constaret Drappetem Senonem, qui, ut primum defecerat Gallia, collectis undique perditis hominibus, servis ad libertatem vocatis..."Liber VII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...ingrata Gallis, et maxime, quod ipse animo non defecerat tanto accepto incommodo neque se in occultum abdiderat..."de Bello Alexandrino
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...decem missis una in cursu litore Aegyptio defecerat — , Ponticas VIII, +Lycias+ V, ex Asia XII. Ex his erant..."