descenderat
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. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...suae memor. Nemo inprobe eo conatur ascendere unde descenderat. Quid est autem cur non existimes in eo divini..." - L
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...deinde, cum obstructus ille est trames per quem descenderat, reditum autem illi a tergo resistens aqua abstulit..." - M
Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...tantumque ab illo defluebant quantum ille ab antiquis descenderat. CXXVII. Foret enim optandum pares ac saltem proximos illi..." - P
Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...peregrinum ut viseret orbem, montibus in liquidas pinus descenderat undas, nullaque mortales praeter sua litora norant; nondum praecipites..." - P
Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...carmen magico demurmurat ore. Scylla venit mediaque tenus descenderat alvo, cum sua foedari latrantibus inguina monstris adspicit..." - P
Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...utrumque videntur. 'Ergo ubi se liquidas, quo vir descenderat, undas semimarem fecisse videt mollitaque in illis membra, manus..." - P
Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...condas Boeotiaque illa vocato.' vix bene Castalio Cadmus descenderat antro, incustoditam lente videt ire iuvencam nullum servitii signum..." - P
Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...peregrinum ut viseret orbem, montibus in liquidas pinus descenderat undas, nullaque mortales praeter sua litora norant; nondum praecipites..."