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
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..."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..."Liber XXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...unum in locum totam periculi molem, omne onus incubuisse. qui eorum prior uicisset, intra paucos dies castra..."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..."