descenditur
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. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...abducere,cum uitio, Lucili, consentire est. In uoluptates descenditur, in asperaet dura subeundum est: hic inpellamus corpora, illic..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE IRA
"...Vides illum praecipitem locum? illac ad libertatem descenditur. Vides illud mare, illud flumen, illum puteum? libertas illic..."APOCOLOCYNTOSIS
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...Dicto citius Narcissus evolat. Omnia proclivia sunt, facile descenditur. Itaque quamvis podagricus esset, momento temporis pervenit ad ianuam..."Liber VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...adulterium". Interim a qualitate ad finitionem descenditur ut in actionibus dementiae, malae tractationis, rei publicae laesae: in quibus..."