desciverat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →descisco, desciscere, descivi, descitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
desert/defect/revolt; deviate/abandon standard/principle; degenerate; fall away;
sg. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...prope gens sine dissimulatione consilii publici ad hostes desciverat; et postquam icto Romae cum Samnitibus foedere fetiales venerant..."Liber V
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...Parthorum bello prohibitus est; nam ea tempestate Arsaces desciverat. Tum Iudaei Macedonibus invalidis, Parthis nondum adultis—et Romani..."
