quiescebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →quiesco, quiescere, quievi, quietus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
rest, keep quiet/calm, be at peace/rest; be inactive/neutral; permit; sleep;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber II
Aulus Gellius
"...solet, cui servari ferias oporteret, statuere et edicere quiescebant, ne alium pro alio nominando falsa religione populum alligarent..."Liber VI
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...lapidibus quidem fulta in eodem vestigio quiescebant. Praeterea mare in se resorberi et tremore terrae quasi repelli videbamus..."