expetebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →expeto, expetere, expeti, expetitus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
ask for; desire; aspire to; demand; happen; fall on (person);
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Mostellaria
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...parsimonia et duritia discipulinae aliis eram, optumi quique expetebant a me doctrinam sibi. nunc, postquam nihili..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...ubique sunt homines, hoc idem votis expetebant; ille tantum iure principis occupavit, primusque fecit, quod omnes facturi erant..."