gestabat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →gesto, gestare, gestavi, gestatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
bear, carry; wear;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
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Liber VIII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...puppe salutatSeptimius, qui, pro superum pudor, arma satellesregia gestabat posito deformia pilo,inmanis uiolentus atrox nullaque ferarummitior..." 
Liber Primus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...interea clari decus adiacet orbis quem genitor gestabat Abas--secat aurea fluctu tegmina Chalcidicas fugiens Euripus harenas celsaque..."- P
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...nulla palam causa turbatus equus, qui consularia insignia gestabat, retro evasit; hostiaque, quae muniebantur hibernaculis adsistens, semifacta opera..." - P
Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...excubias exanimati sunt. adnotatusque miles, qui fascem lignorum gestabat, ita praeriguisse manus, ut oneri adhaerentes truncis brachiis deciderent..." - P
Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...adfixus in isdem anulis quos acceptos a Vitellio gestabat. at Romae senatus cuncta principibus solita Vespasiano decernit, laetus..."