peccaret
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. subj. 3rd
Examples
Persa
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...preti. quin tu hanc emis? nimis pavebam, ne peccaret. expedivit. DOR. Si te emam, mihi quoque Lucridem confido..."Dialogus de Oratoribus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...Quod si inveniretur aliqua civitas, in qua nemo peccaret, supervacuus esset inter innocentis orator sicut inter sanos medicus..."