nesciebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →nescio, nescire, nescivi, nescitus:
Verb · 4th conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
not know (how); be ignorant/unfamiliar/unaware/unacquainted/unable/unwilling;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- L
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...feminam exuerant, damnatae sunt morbis virilibus. Antiqui medici nesciebant dare cibum saepius et vino fulcire venas cadentis, nesciebant..." - T
Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...cavillans interdum et Volerones vocare. Nihil eorum Volsci nesciebant, instabantque eo magis, sperantes idem certamen animorum adversus Appium..."