subcubuissent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →subcumbo, subcumbere, subcubui, subcubitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
sink/fall/lie/break down; succumb/collapse (w/weight); suffer/concede defeat;; surrender; yield; lay under; lie under/submit (female to male); cohabit (L+S);; give in/way; lower itself (animal to take load); be rival to (DAT of a woman);
pl. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Metamorphoses XIV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...nomen tenuisse puellae. talia dicturus vidit Cyllenius omnes subcubuisse oculos adopertaque lumina somno; supprimit extemplo vocem firmatque soporem..."Metamorphoses I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...nomen tenuisse puellae. talia dicturus vidit Cyllenius omnes subcubuisse oculos adopertaque lumina somno; supprimit extemplo vocem firmatque soporem..."
