destituisset
Dictionary entries
- Entry →destituo, destituere, destitui, destitutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
fix/set (in position), set up, make fast; leave destitute/without; render void;; desert/leave/abandon/forsake/leave in lurch; disappoint/let down; fail/give up;
sg. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber VII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...fingente nefas Pyladen odisset Orestes, Thesea Pirithoi destituisset amor, tu Siculos fratres et maius nomen Atridas et Ledae..."- P
Amores III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Amores
"...aversis utinam tetigissem carmina Musis, Phoebus et inceptum destituisset opus! Nec tamen ut testes mos est audire poetas..." - T
Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...expositi erant pueri, tenuis in sicco aqua destituisset, lupam sitientem ex montibus qui circa sunt ad puerilem vagitum..."