descivisset
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. subj. 3rd
Examples
- A
Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...satisque agerent Romani et pleraque Italia ad regem descivisset, tum Ambraciensis quispiam Timochares, regis Pyrri amicus..." - P
Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...hosti obviam iretur, si a populo Romano palam descivisset, Vespasiani amicitiam studiumque partium praetendit, missis sane..."