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
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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..." - L
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..." - L
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..." - M
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..."