serviebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →servio, servire, servivi, servitus:
Verb · 4th conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
serve; be a slave to; with DAT;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- P
Phormio
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...puellulam citharistriam, hanc ardere coepit perdite. ea serviebat lenoni inpurissimo, neque quod daretur quicquam; id curarant patres. restabat..." - C
Atticus
Cornelius Nepos from LIBER DE LATINIS HISTORICIS
"...esse praetoris. Qua in re non solum dignitati serviebat, sed etiam tranquillitati, cum suspiciones quoque vitaret criminum..." - M
In Catilinam II
Marcus Tullius Cicero from Catilinarian Orations
"...alios ipse amabat turpissime, aliorum amori flagitiosissime serviebat, aliis fructum lubidinum, aliis mortem parentum non modo inpellendo, verum..."