despondebit
Dictionary entries
- Entry →despondeo, despondere, despepondi, desponsus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
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- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
betroth, promise (woman) in marriage; pledge, promise; despair/yield/give up;
sg. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...mihi nuptura est? TRACH. Suspicor. PLES. Censen hodie despondebit eam mihi, quaeso? TRACH. Censeo. PLES. Quid? patri etiam..."Miles Gloriosus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...nisi tu illi fers suppetias, iam illa animum despondebit. age, mi Achilles, fiat quod te oro, serva illam..."
