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
- T
Liber XXXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...hostem. postquam terga dabant et in fugam passim effundebantur, tum ad persequendos eos legionarii equites immissi. quattuordecim milia..." - P
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..."
