incumbam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →incumbo, incumbere, incumbui, incumbitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
lean forward/over/on, press on; attack, apply force; fall on (one's sword);
sg. fut. act. ind. 1stsg. pres. act. subj. 1st
Examples
Casina
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...sors autem decolassit, gladium faciam culcitam Eumque incumbam. sed progreditur optume eccum Olympio. OLYMPIO. LYSIDAMVS SERVOS SENEX..."Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...nobis dilationem damus: 'cum hoc peregero, toto animo incumbam' et 'si hanc rem molestam composuero, studio me dabo..."V
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...velis. cibos me poscere putas? humeros, quibus incumbam, manus, quas eliso pectori apponam, sinus, in quos egeram exhaustarum..."I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...manus tantum. Si mori necesse est, illi potissimum incumbam. Hoc illa iam olim gravis et infelix anima quaerebat..."Dialogus de Oratoribus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...dimissa priore cura novae cogitationi toto pectore incumbam." "Adeo te tragoediae istae non satiant," inquit Aper "quo minus..."