peccabant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →pecco, peccare, peccavi, peccatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sin; do wrong, commit moral offense; blunder, stumble; be wrong;; make mistake; make slip in speaking; act incorrectly; go wrong, be faulty;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quousque eadem?' responde: 'Ego debebam dicere "quousque eadem peccabitis?" Remedia ante vultis quam vitia desinere? Ego vero..."de Bello Alexandrino
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...versarentur rapinarum, nihilo minus oderant eum cuius nomine peccabant, sibique quod rapuerant acceptum referebant, quod interciderat aut erat..."