exsiluissent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →exsilio, exsilire, exsilui, -:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
spring/leap/burst forth/out, leap up, start up, bound; emerge into existence;
pl. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...tridente aspera saxa facit, medioque e vulnere saxi exsiluisse fretum, quo pignore vindicet urbem; at sibi dat clipeum..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...Quis tunc non e vestigio suo exsiluit? quis exsiluisse sensit? Multa fecimus sponte, plura instinctu quodam et imperio..."