dictabat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dicto, dictare, dictavi, dictatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
dictate (for writing/speaking); compose; draw up; order/prescribe; fix (survey);; say/declare/assert repeatedly/habitually/often/frequently; reiterate; recite;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber Quintus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...solitus. sic sacra Numae ritusque colendos 290mitis Aricino dictabat Nympha sub antro,Scipio sic plenos Latio Iove ducere..."- Q
Sermones I
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...vitiosus: in hora saepe ducentos, ut magnum, versus dictabat stans pede in uno; cum flueret lutulentus, erat quod..." - G
Liber III
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...loquor; nam dum destringitur tergiturque, audiebat aliquid aut dictabat -. In itinere quasi solutus ceteris curis, huic uni vacabat..."