vivebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →vivo, vivere, vixi, victus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
be alive, live; survive; reside;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...corporis ipsas. et graviter partim metuentes limina leti vivebant ferro privati parte virili, et manibus sine non nulli..."Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...hiemis aut imbris vili receptaculo tuti sub fronde vivebant, placidas transigebant sine suspirio noctes. Sollicitudo nos in nostra..."Liber X
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...tamen de omnibus aetatis suae, qui quidem tum vivebant, exceptis Caesare atque Marcello, silentium egerit: quis erit modus..."