desiluissent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →desilio, desilire, desilui, desultus:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
leap/jump down, dismount, alight; (chariot); jump headlong, venture heedlessly;
pl. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
de Otio
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...partem ac ueluti scintillas quasdam astrorum in terram desiluisse atque alieno loco haesisse. 6. Cogitatio nostra caeli munimenta..."Divus Vespasianus
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...Mulionem in itinere quodam suspicatus ad calciandas mulas desiluisse, ut adeunti litigatori spatium moramque praeberet, interrogavit quanti calciasset..."Liber XXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...sunt relictique muri cum qua cuique erat proximum desiluissent. quod ubi egressus Scipio in tumulum quem Mercuri uocant..."