descendam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →descendo, descendere, descendi, descensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
descend, climb/march/come/go/flow/run/hang down; dismount; penetrate/sink;; stoop; demean; drop/become lower (pitch); be reduced; trace descent/come down;
sg. fut. act. ind. 1stsg. pres. act. subj. 1st
Examples
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...pistores dabo, ut ibi cruciere currens. asta ut descendam nunciam in proclivi, quamquam nequam es. ARG. Quid nunc..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...periclitantem, seruabo; in amicitiam, quae similes iungit, non descendam, nec seruatoris illum loco numerabo sed feneratoris, cui sciam..."XVI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...legatum patria dimitteret, vel, uti ad propriam descendam necessitatis meae conplorationem, si me damnatum poena constringeret, videlicet effringeres..."Aeneid XII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...sancta ad vos anima atque istius inscia culpae descendam magnorum haud umquam indignus avorum.' Vix ea fatus erat..."