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
- L
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..." - G
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..."