deficerent
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. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...Lusitanis, cum Servium Galbam accusavit: "Tamen dicunt deficere voluisse. Ego me nunc volo ius pontificium optime scire; iamne..."Liber III
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...prius ad iugulum et supera succedere fauces, verum deficere in certa regione locatam; ut sensus alios in parti..."Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...sciens fecit, erubescet si nesciens; medicus si deficere aegrum non intellegit, quantum ad artem magis peccat quam..."Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...religionem incutit mentibus, et quidem publice, siue deficere sol uisus est, siue luna, cuius obscuratio frequentior, aut parte..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...intellegis quod ab illo proficiscitur non posse deficere. [13,1] Adiciam, ut Thales ait, "ualentissimum elementum..."ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...quanto spiritu ingentibus intonueris verbis: pudebit te subito deficere et ex tanta orationis magnitudine desciscere. Ne commiseris..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...quia occupauerunt; sumite modo animum, qualem decet, et deficere nolite: uincetis optantes. Nec desunt tam pulchro certamini duces..."Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...dedere optas? ARG. Ego te? quam si intellegam deficere vita, iam ipse vitam meam tibi largiar..."
