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
- L
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..." - P
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..."