incubate
Dictionary entries
- Entry →incubo, incubare, incubui, incubitus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
lie in or on (w/DAT); sit upon; brood over; keep a jealous watch (over);
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd - Entry →incubo, incubare, incubavi, incubatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
brood; (rare alt. perf/vpar for incubo);
voc. sg. perf. pass. part.pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- L
Liber IX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...favente fortuna in unum congesta sunt, dominis suis incubant gravia et illos semper premunt, aliquando et inludunt. Nemo..." - L
ad Marciam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...dolori tuo, cui uiri quoque libenter haerent et incubant, nec spem concepissem tam iniquo tempore, tam inimico iudice..." - L
Oedipus
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...ipso concidit gyro dominumque prono prodidit armo. Incubant agris pecudes relictae; taurus armento pereunte marcet: deficit pastor grege..." - L
Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...asperi montis latus.— eligere nescis, anime, cui telo incubes! utinam esset, utinam fixus in thalamis meis Herculeus ensis..." - G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...patentibus in orbem alis, quales esse solent quae incubant ova. Accessere continuo duo servi et symphonia strepente scrutari..."