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
- T
Asinaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...pistores dabo, ut ibi cruciere currens. asta ut descendam nunciam in proclivi, quamquam nequam es. ARG. Quid nunc..." - L
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..." - M
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..." - P
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..."