fingebantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →fingo, fingere, finxi, fictus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
mold, form, shape; create, invent; produce; imagine; compose; devise, contrive;; adapt, transform into; modify (appearance/character/behavior); groom;; make up (story/excuse); pretend, pose; forge, counterfeit; act insincerely;
pl. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- G
Liber II
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...nonnulli etiam ab eis, qui diligentiores videri volebant, fingebantur. Quibus de causis consilio convocato de summa rerum deliberare..." - P
Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...accusatus in senatu, non ob crimina quae fingebantur sed angore, simul fessus senio et quia regibus aequa, nedum..." - P
Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...Moesica ac Pannonica hiberna circumsederi; paria de Britannia fingebantur. sed nihil aeque quam incendium Capitolii, ut finem imperio..."