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
- M
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..." - P
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..." - G
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..." - G
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..."