restinximus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →restinguo, restinguere, restinxi, restinctus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
extinguish, quench, put out; exterminate, destroy; assuage, allay, mitigate;
pl. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber Nonus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...certe repsit Tirynthius amnem, hac tibi flagrantem Bromium restinximus unda. aspice quas fluuio caedes, quae funera portem continuus..."In Catilinam III
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...tectis ac moenibus subiectos prope iam ignis circumdatosque restinximus, idemque gladios in rem publicam destrictos rettudimus mucronesque eorum..."