fallebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →fallo, fallere, fefelli, falsus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
deceive; slip by; disappoint; be mistaken, beguile, drive away; fail; cheat;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XLIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...uecti nocte binis aut ternis plerumque lembis Macedones fallebant. per id fere tempus legati Macedones Illyriique simul Rhodum..."Liber XXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...nocte et mittebantur et perveniebant; eo custodias hostium fallebant. Imbribus deinde continuis citatior solito amnis transverso vertice dolia..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...socordiam praefecti, quem nota pariter et occulta fallebant. Sed tum e libertis Onomastum futuro sceleri praefecit..."