incubarent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →incubo, incubare, incubavi, incubatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
brood; (rare alt. perf/vpar for incubo);; lie in or on (w/DAT); sit upon; brood over; keep a jealous watch (over);
pl. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Curculio
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...mirandum, melius si nil fit tibi, namque incubare satius te fuerat Iovi, qui tibi auxilio in iure iurando..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...inobsequens arti est? Haec inspicere, haec discere, his incubare, nonne transilire est mortalitatem suam, et in meliorem transcribi..."Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...spiritus geminare, praeclarasque contubernales ab omnibus spondis transversas incubare et reliquas circum iacere passim: CXXIV. quae tamen exanimatae..."