dempsisti
Dictionary entries
- Entry →demo, demere, dempsi, demptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
take/cut away/off, remove, withdraw; subtract; take away from;
sg. perf. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...rustico suades stuprum. AST. Eiram dixi: ut decepisti! dempsisti unam litteram. nimis quidem hic truculentust. TRVC. Pergin male..."Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...respondetis? MNES. Chrysale, occidi. CHRYS. Fortassis tu auri dempsisti parum? MNES. Quam, malum, parum? immo vero nimio minus..."Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...longo facite ut narremur in aevo, et, quae dempsistis vitae, date tempora famae!" dixit, et ad postes ornatos..."