incumbant
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);
pl. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber X
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...cunctos in seque simul. 'tu mollibus' inquit'nunc incumbe toris et pinguis exige somnos:inuasit Cleopatra domum..."Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...omnia uno agmine ad exitium humani generis incumbant. [27,2] Ita est: nihil difficile naturae est, utique..."Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...pudor; uindicta leuis est quam ferunt purae manus. incumbe in iras teque languentem excita penitusque ueteres pectore..."[Proverbs]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger)
"...placeas, sed qualibus stude. 9. In hoc (tamen) incumbe, ut libentius audias quam loquaris. 10. Multos vitam differentes..."
Liber Tertius
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...ligatum attolles umeris atque in mea pectora primum incumbes e puppe novus, servataque reddes colloquia inque vicem medios..."Liber IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...casses. Quo magis exhaustae fuerint, hoc acrius omnes incumbent generis lapsi sarcire ruinas complebuntque foros et floribus horrea..."