descendite
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. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber VI
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Roma, 75quoque modo terrae praelapsus moenia Thybrisin mare descendit, si nusquam torqueat amnem.classica nulla sonant iniussaque tela uaganturet..."Liber III
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...ruptis pelagus conpagibus hausit,ad summos repleta foros descendit in undas 630uicinum inuoluens contorto uertice pontum.aequora discedunt mersa..."Aristides
Cornelius Nepos
"...poenam non pertulit. Nam postquam Xerxes in Graeciam descendit, sexto fere anno, quam erat expulsus, populi scito..."Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...simul ac nubes successere, ipse in eas tum descendit, prope ut hinc teli determinet ictus? in mare..."Satura XI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...quantum ferrata distet ab arca sacculus. e caelo descendit gn�yi seaut�n figendum et memori tractandum pectore..."Satura VII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...uitae diuersum iter ingredietur ad pugnam qui rhetorica descendit ab umbra, summula ne pereat qua uilis tessera uenit..."Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...apud illos boni uilitaset adeo in sordida usque descendit. Honestum putant cui ratio recti officiiconstat, tamquam pie curatam..."Liber X
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...cultuque deum, non moenibus urbis,effossum tumulis cupide descendit in antrum.illic Pellaei proles uaesana Philippi, 20felix praedo, iacet..."