diffidebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →diffido, diffidere, diffisus sum:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Semideponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
distrust; despair; (w/DAT) lack confidence (in), despair (of); expect not;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...territus Antiochus, quia possessione maris pulsus longinqua tueri diffidebat se posse, praesidium ab Lysimachia, ne opprimeretur..." - T
Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...suis certamine crederet, adesse gerendae rei fortunam haud diffidebat. Cuius ne quod praetermitteret tempus, sollicitus intentusque erat..."