incubuissent
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. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Fortuna, marito accendisse rogum gelidosque effusa per artus incubuisse uiro, laceros exurere crines membraque dispersi pelago conponere Magni..." - M
X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...opus erat, si revocaretur!' mox in ipsam dicitur incubuisse pronus urnam et inter ossa et inter cineres verba..." - T
Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...unum in locum totam periculi molem, omne onus incubuisse. qui eorum prior uicisset, intra paucos dies castra..." - P
Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...reliquos circumveniri, si cuncti quibus libertas servitio potior incubuissent, auget viris positisque castris Thubuscum oppidum circumsidet. at Dolabella..."