confirmabat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →confirmo, confirmare, confirmavi, confirmatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
strengthen, develop, build up (w/troops); make secure/firm; reassure; secure;; assert positively; declare, prove, confirm, support; sanction; encourage;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Divus Iulius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...perterritos non negando minuendove, sed insuper amplificando ementiendoque confirmabat. Itaque cum expectatio adventus Iubae terribilis esset, convocatis..."Liber VII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...hostes ad insequendum tardabat et nostros spe auxili confirmabat. Tandem Germani ab dextro latere summum iugum nacti hostes..."