excusabant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →excuso, excusare, excusavi, excusatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
excuse/justify/explain; make excuse for/plead as excuse; allege; absolve/exempt;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber XXXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...stetisset, Lycurgi leges, Achaei maxime concilii negati crimen excusabant recitando legem, quae nisi belli pacisue causa..." - P
Liber V
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...Sacratae mulieris Vbiae. Vigiles flagitium suum ducis dedecore excusabant, tamquam iussi silere ne quietem eius turbarent; ita intermisso..." - P
Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...nihil cetero in itinere hostile ausi, Bonnense proelium excusabant, tamquam petita pace, postquam negabatur, sibimet ipsi consuluissent. Civilis..."