succumbat
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. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...ergo ne terra debeat minui, ut ualidiori infirma succumbat. Incipiet ergo putrescere, dehinc laxata ire in umorem..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...faciam diem. caedatur omnis silua et Oetaeum nemus succumbat: ingens Herculem accipiat rogus, sed ante mortem. Tu, genus..."