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vixisset

vixisset is a Latin form of vivo, meaning “live”. It is the 3rd person singular pluperfect active subjunctive.

Found 27 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.1.101: … praeclara aut denique, id quod levissimum est, adsiduitate, qui ante quaesturam cum meretricibus lenonibusque vixisset, quaesturam ita gessisset quem ad modum cognovistis, Romae post quaesturam illam nefariam vix triduum constit …

Ovid, Remedia amoris 55: Vixisset Phyllis, si me foret usa magistro,

Livy, Ab urbe condita 21.2.2: si diutius uixisset, Hamilcare duce Poenos arma Italiae inlaturos fuisse qui Hannibalis ductu intulerunt.

All forms of vivo (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.