excubabat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →excubo, excubare, excubui, excubitus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
sleep/lie in the open/out of doors; keep watch; be attentive;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Otho
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...Galbam adgredi, sed obstitit respectus cohortis, quae tunc excubabat, ne oneraretur invidia, quod eiusdem statione et Gaius fuerat..."Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...magistratibus erat. nocte pars tertia ciuium in muris excubabat; neque moris causa tantum aut legis sed quanta..."