differebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →differo, differre, distuli, dilatus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
postpone/delay/differ; put off, keep waiting; give respite to; differ, disagree;; spread abroad; scatter/disperse; separate; defame; confound/bewilder, distract;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber Quartus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...veteribus Peripateticis Academicisque, qui re consentientes vocabulis differebant, eum locum, quem civilem recte appellaturi videmur, Graeci politiko/n, graviter..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...cupere. pars multo maxima inminentis dominos variis rumoribus differebant: trucem Agrippam et ignominia accensum non aetate neque rerum..."Liber VIII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...relegabant, una sedebant et temporaria simulatione concordiae discordiam differebant. Ego postulabam, ut tribus sententiis constaret suus numerus..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...milites nihil a plebe habitu, tranquillitate, modestia differebant. Ubi vero coepisti Capitolium adscendere, quam laeta omnibus adoptionis tuae..."