secabant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →seco, secare, secavi, secatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Rare
- Age:
- Later
cut, sever; decide; divide in two/halve/split; slice/chop/cut up/carve; detach;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Phaedra
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...campo sacer diuisit agros arbiter populis lapis; nondum secabant credulae pontum rates: sua quisque norat maria; non uasto..."Aeneid X
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...navibus ibant subsidio Troiae et campos salis aere secabant. Iamque dies caelo concesserat almaque curru noctivago Phoebe medium..."Aeneid VIII
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...clari delphines in orbem aequora verrebant caudis aestumque secabant. in medio classis aeratas, Actia bella, cernere erat, totumque..."Metamorphoses VII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Iamque fretum Minyae Pagasaea puppe secabant, perpetuaque trahens inopem sub nocte senectam Phineus visus erat, iuvenesque Aquilone creati..."Liber XXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...levi tantum glacie tabidaque nive volutabantur. Iumenta secabant interdum etiam infimam ingredientia nivem et prolapsa iactandis gravius..."