pendebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →pendo, pendere, pependi, pensus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Field:
- Government
weigh out; pay, pay out;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd - Entry →pendeo, pendere, pependi, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
hang, hang down; depend; [~ ab ore => hang upon the lips, listen attentively];
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...inuicti posuit se mente Catonis. ille, ubi pendebant casus dubiumque manebat quem dominum mundi facerent ciuilia bella, oderat..."Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...constare); ne examinaui quidem diu (neque enim paria pendebant), utrum satius esset me perire pro fide an fidem..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...comederit glandem." Statim pueri ad sportellas accesserunt quae pendebant e dentibus, thebaicasque et caryatas ad numerum divisere cenantibus..."
Liber Nonus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...frena sonantia iactat. frena regam, cultus Triuiae pendebitis alto limine, captiuis matrem donabo pharetris.' audiit et mixto risit..."Aeneid VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...tepebat humus, foribusque adfixa superbis ora virum tristi pendebant pallida tabo. huic monstro Volcanus erat pater: illius atros..."Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...cornibus umbras. cornua fulgebant auro, demissaque in armos pendebant tereti gemmata monilia collo. bulla super frontem parvis argentea..."Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...genitas Pandione ferro. corpora Cecropidum pennis pendere putares: pendebant pennis. quarum petit altera silvas, altera tecta subit, neque..."Metamorphoses V
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...dumque volunt plangi, per bracchia mota levatae aere pendebant, nemorum convicia, picae. Nunc quoque in alitibus facundia prisca..."