devoverent
Dictionary entries
- Entry →devoveo, devovere, devovi, devotus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
devote, consecrate; vow, promise solemnly; mark out, appoint; curse, execrate;; dedicate to infernal gods (general/army); destine, doom; bewitch, enchant;
pl. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
- C
Alcibiades
Cornelius Nepos
"...venerat, Eumolpidas sacerdotes a populo coactos, ut se devoverent, eiusque devotionis, quo testatior esset memoria, exemplum in pila..." - T
Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...patria praeclaram esse fateor et me vel devovere pro populo Romano legionibusque vel in medios me immittere hostes..." - T
Liber VIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quem velit ex legione Romana scripta civem devovere; si is homo qui devotus est moritur, probe factum videri..." - T
Liber VI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...omnia parentum beneficia ab illo se habere; illi devovere corporis vitaeque ac sanguinis quod supersit; quodcumque sibi..."