usurpabant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →usurpo, usurpare, usurpavi, usurpatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
seize upon, usurp; use;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XXXIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...difficulter uidebat iugum accepturas: Zmyrna et Lampsacus libertatem usurpabant, periculumque erat ne, si concessum iis foret quod intenderent..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...irruptio ferarum, et obsidione quadam liberatus agrestium labor. Usurpabant gloriam istam illi quoque principes, qui obire non poterant..."