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
- P
Phormio
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...otiosi operam dabamus Phaedriae. in quo haec discebat ludo, exadvorsum ilico tonstrina erat quaedam: hic solebamus fere plerumque..." - A
Liber VI
Aulus Gellius
"...legi dicebat in his versibus: in quo haec discebat ludo, exadversum loco tonstrina erat quaedam. Addebat etiam, quod..." - G
BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...patiens erat, in castris per laborem usum militiae discebat magisque in decoris armis et militaribus equis quam..."