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
Phormio
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...puellulam citharistriam, hanc ardere coepit perdite. ea serviebat lenoni inpurissimo, neque quod daretur quicquam; id curarant patres. restabat..."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..."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..."