sumebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →sumo, sumere, sumpsi, sumptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
take up; begin; suppose, assume; select; purchase; exact (punishment); obtain;; accept; begin; suppose; select; purchase; obtain; (sumpsi, sumptum);
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- G
Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...pridie noctu conclamatum esset in Caesaris castris, argumenti sumebant loco non posse clam exiri. Circumfundi noctu equitatum Caesaris..." - T
Liber XXXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...dubio paulo ante, si diis placet, legati Eumenis sumebant, quae Antiochi fuerunt, Eumenem aequius esse quam me habere..." - G
BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...verberibus animadvortebant in civis, de condemnatis summum supplicium sumebant. Postquam res publica adolevit et multitudine civium factiones valuere..." - P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...concitisque omnibus, qui exauctorati a Vitellio bellum sponte sumebant, Foroiuliensem coloniam, claustra maris, praesidio tuebatur, eo gravior auctor..."