usurpabat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →usurpo, usurpare, usurpavi, usurpatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
seize upon, usurp; use;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...animis cognoverat, caedibus et incendiis perpopulatus possessionem Armeniae usurpabat, cum advenit Tigranes a Nerone ad capessendum imperium delectus..."Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...deinde edicto Carthaginiensibus increpitis, ne solita quidem munia usurpabat, clausus intra domum, ne qua motus novi causa..."