moriebantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →morior, moriri, moritus sum:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Age:
- Early
die; expire, pass/die/wither away/out; decay; (FUT ACT PPL only, moriturus);
pl. imperf. ind. 3rd - Entry →morior, mori, mortuus sum:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
die, expire, pass/die/wither away/out; fail, come to an end; decay;; perish; become obsolete (word), fall into disuse; be forgotten;; become obsolete (word), fall into disuse; be forgotten; faint, languish;; become void/moot (lawsuit); be extinguished (fire/light), go out;
pl. imperf. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...saecla ferarum exibant silvis. languebant pleraque morbo et moriebantur. cum primis fida canum vis strata viis animam ponebat..."Liber XLI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...superauerant, longinquo, maxime quartanae, implicabantur morbo. seruitia maxime moriebantur; eorum strages per omnis uias insepultorum erat. ne liberorum..."Liber XXX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...circumfusis undique hostibus alii super alios cadentes obstinate moriebantur; omnibusque in eos uersis aliquantum ad fugam temporis Syphax..."Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...temporis ac loci uitio et aegri erant et moriebantur; postea curatio ipsa et contactus aegrorum uolgabat morbos..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...minus gravescit quam cetera. Ne simplici quidem morte moriebantur. Vt sustinere corpora plerique nequeuntes arma sua quisque stans..."
