defecimus
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;
pl. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Phormio
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...ipsum quaerebam. {Ge.} sed ea causa nihilo mage defecimus. {An.} loquere obsecro, quonam in loco sunt..."Liber XVI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...ipsi faciamus animose; simus inter exempla. Quare defecimus? quare desperamus? Quidquid fieri potuit potest, nos modo purgemus animum..."Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quorum princeps 'neque primo' inquit 'Syracusani a uobis defecimus sed Hieronymus, nequaquam tam in uos impius quam..."Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...adfero, pater, quo non veniam solum peccati, quod defecimus ad Hannibalem, impetraturi ab Romanis sed in multo maiore..."