dimitteretur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →dimitto, dimittere, dimisi, dimissus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
send away/off; allow to go, let go/off; disband, discharge, dismiss (soldiers);; dissolve (assembly); part with; put away; divorce; pay off, settle (debt);; release, set free; allow to escape/slip away; shake off/scatter/shed;; discontinue, renounce, abandon/forsake, forgo, give up (activity); dispatch;
sg. imperf. pass. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...palam inter se loquebantur, quoniam talis occasio victoriae dimitteretur, etiam cum vellet Caesar, sese non esse pugnaturos. Ille..."Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...liberati erant—urbe excessisse in agros dilapsos, priusquam dimitteretur exercitus, ire praetorem cum expeditis et comprehendere id genus..."
