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
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..."Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...cavillans interdum et Volerones vocare. Nihil eorum Volsci nesciebant, instabantque eo magis, sperantes idem certamen animorum adversus Appium..."