descenderant
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;
pl. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...segetum raptus moturus signa repenteconspicit in planos hostem descendere campos,oblatumque uidet uotis sibi mille petitumtempus, in extremos..." - M
Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...caeca sorte pararent,solus in ancipites metuit descendere MartisAppius euentus, finemque expromere rerumsollicitat superos multosque obducta per annosDelphica..." - M
Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...tolli feralia uiderat arma, intonsos rigidam in frontem descendere canos 375passus erat maestamque genis increscere barbam: uni quippe..." - M
Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...tantis cladibus auctor 30Poenus erit: nulli penitus descendere ferrocontigit; alta sedent ciuilis uolnera dextrae. quod si non aliam..." - A
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...pater proconsul obviam in equo vehens venit neque descendere voluit, quod pater erat, et, quod inter eos sciebant..." - T
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...montibus altis crescat, ubi in campos albas descendere ningues tabificis subigit radiis sol omnia lustrans. Nunc age, Averna..." - D
Satura XIV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...oblectant animum iactata petauro corpora quique solet rectum descendere funem quam tu, Corycia semper qui puppe moraris atque..." - M
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...donat sua tempora Librae aut Astraea iubet lentos descendere Pisces. par Geminis Chiron, et idem, quod Carcinos ardens..."