demittitis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →demitto, demittere, demisi, demissus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
drop, let fall; sink; send/cast/go/flow/float/slope down; flow/shed/let (blood);; bend/stoop/bow/sag; lower (eyes); let (clothes/hair/beard) hang down;; bring/strike down; plunge/insert/thrust/plant; dismiss/demote; depose; absorb;; descend by race/birth; leave (will); let issue rest (on evidence); fell (tree);
pl. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
Thyestes
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...Tartara est auosque nostros, hoc tuam immani sinu demitte uallem nosque defossos tege Acheronte toto. Noxiae supra caput..."
Liber Duodecimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...madidas tibi pronus habenas ducit, in Aonios uigiles demitte Soporem.' uix ea, cum scissis magnum dea nubibus orbem..."Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...moue pharetras arcusque intende sonoros insignemque animam leto demitte; sed illum, pallidus Inachiis qui desuper inminet Argis..."Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...ratis. sic perge, nec umquamemeritam in nostras puppem demitte procellas.tuque, nurus inter longae . . . . . . praecordia curae,non frontem vertere..."Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...quod superest, infesto fulmine morti, si mereor, demitte tuaque hic obrue dextra.' vix haec ediderat cum effusis imbribus..."Liber IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...alta ad delubra dearum constitue et sacrum iugulis demitte cruorem, corporaque ipsa boum frondoso desere luco. Post..."Liber I
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...ullo semine fruges quique satis largum caelo demittitis imbrem. tuque adeo, quem mox quae sint habitura deorum concilia..."Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...horto liliaque infringat fulvis horrentia linguis, marcida demittant subito caput illa vietum nec se sustineant spectentque cacumine terram..."