spargebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →spargo, spargere, sparsi, sparsus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
scatter, strew, sprinkle; spot;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...lucernae quoque umore defectae tenue et extremum lumen spargebant, cum duo Syri expilaturi lagoenam triclinium intraverunt, dumque inter..."
Liber Tertius
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...leni canebant aequora sulco et iam prona leves spargebant sidera somnos. aura vehit, religant tonsas veloque Procneson..."