excubare
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. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...esse quam pro se sciunt, cuius curam excubare pro salute singulorum atque universorum cottidie experiuntur, quo procedente..."Liber VII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...noctu ex oppido profugerent, duas legiones in armis excubare iubet. Cenabenses paulo ante mediam noctem silentio ex oppido..."Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...animadvertissent ex ignibus noctu cohortes nostras ad munitiones excubare, silentio aggressi universi intra multitudinem sagittas coniciebant..."Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...equites non portas clausas, non stationem pro portis excubare, non armatos esse in muris rettulissent, aliud priori simile..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...delubra non nisi adoraturus intras, tibi maximus honor excubare pro templis, postibusque praetexi. Sic fit, ut dei summum..."