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
- T
Casina
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...sors autem decolassit, gladium faciam culcitam Eumque incumbam. sed progreditur optume eccum Olympio. OLYMPIO. LYSIDAMVS SERVOS SENEX..." - L
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..." - M
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..." - M
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..." - P
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..."