increpuissent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →increpo, increpare, increpui, increpitus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
rebuke, chide, reprove; protest at/indignantly, complain loudly/scornfully;; rattle, snap, clash, roar, twang, make noise; (alarm/danger); strike noisily;
pl. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Amores II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...Tutius est fovisse torum, legisse libellos, Threiciam digitis increpuisse lyram. at, si vana ferunt volucres mea dicta procellae..."Liber XLV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...ceterum postquam in castra ad Amphipolim uenit, grauiter increpuisse traditur C. Sulpicium, primum quod Persea tam procul..."Liber VI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...timentes sibimet ipsos maiore audientium indignatione quam sua increpuissent, atqui nec agros occupandi modum nec fenore trucidandi plebem..."