depastis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →depasco, depascere, depavi, depastus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
graze/feed/pasture (cattle); devour/eat up; waste/consume (w/fire); lay waste;
abl. pl. perf. pass. part.dat. pl. perf. pass. part. - Entry →depasco, depascere, depavi, depastus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
graze/feed/pasture (cattle); devour/eat up; waste/consume (w/fire); lay waste;
pl. perf. act. ind. 2nd - Entry →depascor, depasci, depastus sum:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
graze down; feed/pasture (cattle); devour/eat up; consume (by fire);; cull, select; prune away, remove; destroy, waste; lay waste;
abl. pl. perf. part.dat. pl. perf. part. - —
Syncopated perfect often drops the 'v' and contracts vowel
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...busta surgunt Thessalicis reddentia manibus ignem. sic, ubi depastis summittere gramina campis et renouare parans hibernas Apulus herbas..."XV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...quas se noxiae potionis vagus fervor effuderit, ubi depastis, enectis visceribus saevitura consederit. aspicio par laboribus corpus retinere..."
