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..."- M
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..."