increpabant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →increpo, increpare, increpavi, increpatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
rebuke, chide, reprove; protest at/indignantly, complain loudly/scornfully;; rattle, snap, clash, roar, twang, make noise; (alarm/danger); strike noisily;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...hostem teneri, latentem post sarcinas. haec contemptim duces increpabant; ceterum neque transilire nec moliri onera obiecta nec caedere..." - T
Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ipsi opera laboremque inritum, praeterquam quod hostes superbe increpabant, cum miserabili confessione eludentes. Ad consules maestos, ne advocantes..." - T
Liber VIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...exercitum damnaret; extrema contio et circa Fabium globus increpabant inclementem dictatorem nec procul seditione aberant. Ne tribunal quidem..." - T
Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...rogitabant num quem plebeii consulis paeniteret; simul dictatorem increpabant, qui legis Liciniae spretae mercedem privata cupiditate quam publica..." - P
Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...theatris corruptum militem, hi peregrinum et externum increpabant. simul Othonem ac Vitellium celebrantes culpantesve uberioribus inter se probris..."