deseruerunt
Dictionary entries
- Entry →desero, deserere, deserui, desertus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
leave/depart/quit/desert; forsake/abandon/give up; withdraw support, let down;; cease to be concerned with; fail/fall short; (PASS w/ABL) be without/deprived;
pl. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Mostellaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...meum. nunc simul res, fides, fama, virtus, decus deseruerunt: ego sum in usu factus nimio nequior. atque edepol..."de Brevitate Vitae
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...tarde ire horas queruntur; nam si quando illos deseruerunt occupationes, in otio relicti aestuant nec quomodo id disponant..."In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...exercitum illum esse nobis quam hos, qui exercitum deseruerunt, pertimescendos. Atque hoc etiam sunt timendi magis, quod, quid..."