recumbere
Dictionary entries
- Entry →recumbo, recumbere, recubui, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
recline, lie at ease, sink/lie/settle back/down; recline at table;
sg. pres. pass. imp. 2ndsg. fut. pass. ind. 2ndsg. pres. pass. ind. 2ndpres. act. infin.
Examples
Liber II
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...felicem cena, Zoile, deinde tua? Debet Aricino conuiua recumbere cliuo, quem tua felicem, Zoile, cena facit. Carmina Paulus..."de Constantia
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...inprobis per forum agetur? si in conuiuio regis recumbere infra mensam uescique cum seruis ignominiosa officia sortitis iubebitur..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...anserem fecerat, muria condimentisque fetentem. Nec contentus fuit recumbere, sed continuo Ephesum tragoedum coepit imitari et subinde dominum..."
Liber Octavus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...sanguine mergi nec nisi regnantis ceruice recumbere tauri. at non semianimi clamore Menoecea lapsus fallit Atys: praeuertit equos..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...infelix validos miratur arator inter opus tauros medioque recumbere sulco; lanigeris gregibus balatus dantibus aegros sponte sua lanaeque..."