deficeret
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. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Satura XI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...percutit, euentum uiridis quo colligo panni. nam si deficeret, maestam attonitamque uideres hanc urbem ueluti Cannarum in puluere..."Vitellius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...Rursus interpellante milite ac populo et ne deficeret hortante omnemque operam suam certatim pollicente, animum resumpsit Sabinumque..."Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...pistrinensibus iumentis, adeo ut et panis Romae saepe deficeret et litigatorum plerique, quod occurrere absentes ad vadimonium..."V
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...perdidisse. non aliter igitur quam si te praesente deficeret 'per illud,' inquit, 'frater optime, natalium nostrorum sacrum venerandumque..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...timorem, quam tua ne spoliata armis, excussa magistro, deficeret tantis navis surgentibus undis. tris Notus hibernas immensa..."Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...procul afuerunt telluris margine summae: hic, ne deficeret, metuens avidusque videndi flexit amans oculos, et protinus illa relapsa..."Liber VII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...legiones contineret, ne stipendiariis Aeduorum expugnatis cuncta Gallia deficeret, quod nullum amicis in eo praesidium videretur positum esse..."Liber V
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...quod ad plures pertinebat, ne civitas eorum impulsu deficeret, Lucium Plancum cum legione ex Belgio celeriter in Carnutes..."