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
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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."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..."