hebetarent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →hebeto, hebetare, hebetavi, hebetatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
blunt, deaden, make dull/faint/dim/torpid/inactive (light/plant/senses), weaken;
pl. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
de Clementia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...quantum sibi cives suos liceat, experiendo temptare, sed hebetare aciem imperii sui. 3. Praestitisti, Caesar, civitatem incruentam..."Amores II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...avium gloria, nempe iaces! tu poteras fragiles pinnis hebetare zmaragdos tincta gerens rubro Punica rostra croco. non fuit..."Liber XXX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...nihil aliud, uolneribus suis ferrum hostile hebetarent; tum, ubi omnis spes esset, milites Carthaginienses Afrosque ut omnibus rebus..."