desistebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →desisto, desistere, destiti, destitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stop/cease/desist (from); give up, leave/stand off; dissociate oneself;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- G
Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...fuit. Neque vero ille ob eam causam conatu desistebat, sed labore et perseverantia nautarum etiam vim tempestatis superari..." - G
de Bello Africo
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...Pompeium filium multis verbis assidueque obiurgare non desistebat. 'tuus' inquit 'pater istuc aetatis cum esset et animadvertisset..." - T
Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...iras hominum. Senatum vero incitare adversus legem haud desistebat: ne aliter descenderent in forum, cum dies ferendae legis..."