succumbite
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);
pl. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber XIII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...amisit testes. Nunc mihi gallus erit. LXIV. Idem. Succumbit sterili frustra gallina marito. Hunc matris Cybeles esse decebat..."Liber III
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...torquet diu,nec quaestionis positae causam intellegit.Nouissime succumbit. Tum uictor sophus:"Cito rumpes arcum, semper se tensum habueris..."
