effundebantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →effundo, effundere, effudi, effusus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
pour out/away/off; allow to drain; shower; volley (missiles); send/stream forth;; shed (blood/tears); discharge (vomit/urine), debouch, emit; flow out, overflow;; break out; bear/yield/bring forth; expend/use up; unseat, eject/drop/discard;; stretch/spread out, extend; spread (sail); loosen/slacken/fling, give rein;
pl. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XXXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...hostem. postquam terga dabant et in fugam passim effundebantur, tum ad persequendos eos legionarii equites immissi. quattuordecim milia..."Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...pluresve hostium sublime rapti verso pondere intra castra effundebantur. Civilis omissa expugnandi spe rursus per otium adsidebat, nuntiis..."
