succumberer
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. imperf. pass. subj. 1st
Examples
Liber VIII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...corpusPompei sentire manus maestamque maritiposse pati faciem: prohibet succumbere fatis 70Magnus et inmodicos castigat uoce dolores.'nobile..."Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...enim poterant subsidere saxa nec pariter tantundem omnes succumbere partis. Sic igitur terrae concreto corpore pondus constitit atque..."Liber XIV
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...Palaestrita. Non amo quod vincat, sed quod succumbere novit Et didicit melius THN EPIKLINOPAL�N. CCII Simius. Callidus..."Liber IX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...aetas'. Interim hoc tene, hoc morde: adversis non succumbere, laetis non credere, omnem fortunae licentiam in oculis habere..."Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...opinor, succidere mentem et incurvari et succumbere. Quorum nihil sapienti viro potest evenire: stat rectus sub quolibet pondere..."Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...pertaesum thalami taedaeque fuisset, huic uni forsan potui succumbere culpae. Anna (fatebor enim) miseri post fata Sychaei coniugis..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...laus ex laudibus eximiis: sed cuivis quamvis potius succumbere par est, quam matrem fratres efficere ex patruo… CXII..."Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...turpe esse, viri non esse debilitari dolore, frangi, succumbere. nam ista vestra: 'Si gravis, brevis; si longus, levis..."