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
- T
Truculentus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...rustico suades stuprum. AST. Eiram dixi: ut decepisti! dempsisti unam litteram. nimis quidem hic truculentust. TRVC. Pergin male..." - T
Bacchides
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...respondetis? MNES. Chrysale, occidi. CHRYS. Fortassis tu auri dempsisti parum? MNES. Quam, malum, parum? immo vero nimio minus..." - P
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..."