sorbebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sorbeo, sorbere, sorbui, sorbitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
drink, absorb;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...oppressura deposuit; mare quos hauserat eadem vi qua sorbebat eiecit incolumes; gladium miles ab ipsa perituri cervice..."
Liber Nonus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...sine fratre reuerti. surgentem dextra Capetum uulnusque minantem sorbebat rapidus nodato gurgite uertex; iam uultu, iam crine latet..."