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..."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..."Liber I
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...expositi erant pueri, tenuis in sicco aqua destituisset, lupam sitientem ex montibus qui circa sunt ad puerilem vagitum..."