dimittuntur
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;
pl. pres. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...utique cum sentit venisse noctem, quando umbrae feliciores dimittuntur ad matres. at vero, si qua inter manes colloquia..." - T
Liber IV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...iugum missi, cum singulis vestimentis ignominiae cladisque pleni dimittuntur; et cum haud procul urbe Tusculo consedissent, vetere Tusculanorum..." - T
Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...factoque senatus consulto ut urbe excederent Volsci, praecones dimittuntur qui omnes eos proficisci ante noctem iuberent. Ingens pavor..." - G
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...tauro paria sint. Ita fiducia quam argumentis purgatiores dimittuntur. Obviam fuere. Audaciter. Et Poeni ferunt adversus . . . LIBER TERTIVS..." - G
Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...obversabantur advocati, silentium longum; tandem a praetore nuntius. Dimittuntur centumviri, eximitur dies me gaudente, qui umquam ita paratus..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...audiendo difficultas, nulla in respondendo mora: adeunt statim, dimittuntur statim: tandemque principis fores exclusa legationum turba non obsidet..."