succubui
Dictionary entries
- Entry →succumbo, succumbere, succubui, succubitus:
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);
sg. perf. act. ind. 1st
Examples
Liber IX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...ferre et se adversus morbos contumaciter gerere -- deinde succubui et eo perductus sum ut ipse destillarem, ad summam..."SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...tibi tam valde placeas. Ego adhuc servo nunquam succubui, nec hoc dii sinant ut amplexus meos in crucem..."