incumbens
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);
acc. sg. pres. act. part.nom. sg. pres. act. part.voc. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber II
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...Lacinia rupes, longior Italia, donec confinia pontus 435solueret incumbens terrasque repelleret aequor, at, postquam gemino tellus elisa profundo..."Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...tamen cum ventis pulsa vacillans aestuat in ramos incumbens arboris arbor, exprimitur validis extritus viribus ignis, emicat inter..."de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...suis praebere ceruicem, Cato ille, uirtutum uiua imago, incumbens gladio, simul de se ac de re publica palam..."Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...Tanais aut quae barbaris Maeotis undis Pontico incumbens mari? non ipse toto magnus Oceano pater tantum expiarit sceleris..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...urceolum frigidum ad malam eius admovit, super quem incumbens Fortunata gemere ac flere coepit. Contra Trimalchio: "Quid enim..."
Liber Quintus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...Campesus hic spoliis in tigri s. ille profundo incumbens Odrussa mero; viden alta comantem pectora et ingenti turbantem..."
Liber Duodecimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...uisuque sagaci rimatur positos et corpora prona supinat incumbens, queriturque parum lucentibus astris. forte soporiferas caeli secreta..."Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...uirus et elicitum iussumque exire repugnat, tum super incumbens pallentia uolnera lambit ore uenena trahens et siccat dentibus..."