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
- T
Curculio
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...mirandum, melius si nil fit tibi, namque incubare satius te fuerat Iovi, qui tibi auxilio in iure iurando..." - L
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..." - M
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..."