hebent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →hebeo, hebere, -, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
be blunt; be sluggish/inactive; grow dim/faint, die down; (of feelings);
pl. pres. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber Undecimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...habenas, iam tacet; erumpunt gemitus, lacrimasque fatetur cassis; hebent irae, pariterque et abire nocentem et uenisse pudet: subito..."- P
Germania
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...feminis senibusque et infirmissimo cuique ex familia; ipsi hebent, mira diversitate naturae, cum idem homines sic ament inertiam..."