attollebatur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →attollo, attollere, -, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
raise/lift up/towards/to a higher position; erect, build; exalt; extol, exalt;
sg. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- P
Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...bonum principem, * * * falsa aberant, et studiis senatus attollebatur. isque praecipuus illi dies magnae offensae initium et magnae gloriae..." - P
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...arma tractantium incusans. simul virtus Germanici exercitus laudibus attollebatur, Vitellii modica et vulgari mentione, nulla in Vespasianum contumelia..." - G
Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...poposcit locus. Apte enim et varie nunc attollebatur, nunc residebat; excelsa depressis, exilia plenis, severis iucunda mutabat, omnia..."