referebatur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →refero, referre, rettuli, relatus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
bring/carry back/again/home; move/draw/force back, withdraw; go back, return;; report (on), bring back news; record/enter; propose/open debate; assign/count;; give/pay back, render, tender; restore; redirect; revive, repeat; recall;; it matters/makes a difference/is of importance; matter/be of importance (PERS);
sg. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
de Tranquillitate Animi
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DIALOGI
"...Pompeio? Numerus illi cotidie seruorum uelut imperatori exercitus referebatur, cui iamdudum diuitiae esse debuerant duo uicarii et cella..."Liber XXXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Macedoniae fama peragratusque orbis terrarum uictoriis eius gentis referebatur: et tutum uel incepto uel euentu se consilium adferre..."Liber XXXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quia ex quaestura in iudices, potentissimum ordinem, referebatur, iam pro futuris mox opibus animos gerebat. enimuero indignum..."Liber VI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...delegit, iacto in praeceps corpore. causa ad matrem referebatur, quae pridem repudiata adsentationibus atque luxu perpulisset iuvenem..."Liber VIII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...quoque docere quod in obscuro est an didiceris. Referebatur de libertis Afrani Dextri consulis incertum sua an suorum..."