faciebas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →facio, facere, feci, factus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
make/build/construct/create/cause/do; have built/made; fashion; work (metal);; act/take action/be active; (bowels); act/work (things), function, be effective;; produce; produce by growth; bring forth (young); create, bring into existence;; compose/write; classify; provide; do/perform; commit crime; suppose/imagine;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
- M
XV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...reposco, iuvenis, invidiam, quam fortunae nostrae paulo ante faciebas. dic: 'meretrix dedit, prostituta porrexit'; o quam timueram..." - M
VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...angustias redegisti, ut illud soli scirent, qui facieba[n]t et cui non crederetur. numquid dubitaretis credere..." - M
In Catilinam I
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...imperante facere, quod iam tua sponte faciebas? Exire ex urbe iubet consul hostem. Interrogas me, num in exilium..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...principem perhibere testimonium merentibus gaudebamus, perhibebatur a principe. Faciebas ergo, quum diceres, OPTIMOS: nec ipsorum modo vita..."