constraverant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →consterno, consternere, constravi, constratus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
strew/cover/spread (rugs); cover/lay/pave/line; bring down, lay low; calm (sea);
pl. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Libri XIV-XV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...distinguebantur ~echini totam destructique~ sine ullis ossibus mulli constraverant. Piget esse iam singula: coguntur in unum sapores..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...minus inhumana pars viae quam Cremonenses lauru rosaque constraverant, extructis altaribus caesisque victimis regium in morem; quae laeta..."