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
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..."Liber XXXIX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...dubio paulo ante, si diis placet, legati Eumenis sumebant, quae Antiochi fuerunt, Eumenem aequius esse quam me habere..."BELLUM CATILINAE
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...verberibus animadvortebant in civis, de condemnatis summum supplicium sumebant. Postquam res publica adolevit et multitudine civium factiones valuere..."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..."