discebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →disco, discere, didici, discitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
learn; hear, get to know, become acquainted with; acquire knowledge/skill of/in;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Phormio
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...otiosi operam dabamus Phaedriae. in quo haec discebat ludo, exadvorsum ilico tonstrina erat quaedam: hic solebamus fere plerumque..."Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...legi dicebat in his versibus: in quo haec discebat ludo, exadversum loco tonstrina erat quaedam. Addebat etiam, quod..."BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...patiens erat, in castris per laborem usum militiae discebat magisque in decoris armis et militaribus equis quam..."