constituebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →constituo, constituere, constitui, constitutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
set up/in position, erect; place/dispose/locate; (call a) halt; plant (trees);; decide/resolve; decree/ordain; appoint, post/station (troops); settle (colony);; establish/create/institute; draw up, arrange/set in order; make up, form; fix;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Satura III
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...veteres arcus madidamque Capenam. hic, ubi nocturnae Numa constituebat amicae (nunc sacri fontis nemus et delubra locantur Iudaeis..."ad Polybium
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...coli sororem, eodem omni tempore, quo templa illi constituebat ac pulvinaria, eos qui parum maesti fuerant, crudelissima adficiebat..."Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...quod Platoni licuisset, qui eum e civitate quam constituebat eiecerit? Sed et Vergili ac Titi Livi scripta..."Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...famam opinionemque hominum teneret, sic pro castris exercitum constituebat, ut tertia acies vallum contingeret, omnis quidem instructus exercitus..."