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
- D
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..." - L
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..." - G
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..." - G
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..."