devenerant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →devenio, devenire, deveni, deventus:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
come to, arrive/turn up (at); go (to see/stay); reach; land; turn to; extend to;
pl. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...societate divisa, alia magno detrimento eorum in quos devenerant prensa. Ex quibus quaedam aliud agentibus inciderunt, quaedam, quia..."Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...vero neminem haec observatio reperiatur, quin e contrario "devenere locos" et "conticuere omnes" et "consedere duces" aperte..."Aeneid VI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...limine figit. His demum exactis, perfecto munere divae, devenere locos laetos et amoena virecta fortunatorum nemorum sedesque beatas..."Aeneid I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...portantur avari Pygmalionis opes pelago; dux femina facti. Devenere locos, ubi nunc ingentia cernis moenia surgentemque novae Karthaginis..."