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
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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...reposco, iuvenis, invidiam, quam fortunae nostrae paulo ante faciebas. dic: 'meretrix dedit, prostituta porrexit'; o quam timueram..."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..."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..."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..."