peccabat
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;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...pati, oculos suos ad illa aduocauit nec quantum peccabat uidere contentus, specula sibi per quae flagitia sua diuideret..."Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...fama clementiam sequeretur tristiora malle. neque enim socordia peccabat; nec occultum est, quando ex veritate, quando adumbrata laetitia..."