legebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →lego, legere, legi, lectus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
read; gather, collect (cremated bones); furl (sail), weigh (anchor); pick out;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...cibis nullo cogente creatis arbuteos fetus montanaque fraga legebant cornaque et in duris haerentia mora rubetis et quae..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...limine Phocus; nam Telamon fraterque viros ad bella legebant. Phocus in interius spatium pulchrosque recessus Cecropidas ducit..."Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...aquae prospexit in imis vallibus; agrestes illic fruticosa legebant vimina cum iuncis gratamque paludibus ulvam; accessit positoque genu..."Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...cibis nullo cogente creatis arbuteos fetus montanaque fraga legebant cornaque et in duris haerentia mora rubetis et quae..."