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recesserunt

recesserunt is a Latin form of recedo, meaning “go back, withdraw, retreat”. It is the 3rd person plural perfect active indicative.

Found 30 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.43.6: Paulum quidem intermissa flamma et quodam loco turri adacta et contingente vallum tertiae cohortis centuriones ex eo, quo stabant, loco recesserunt suosque omnes removerunt, nutu vocibusque hostes, si introire vellent, vocare coeperunt; quorum progredi ausus est nemo.

All forms of recedo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.