imponebatur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →impono, imponere, imposui, impositus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
impose, put upon; establish; inflict; assign/place in command; set;
sg. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...verecundia, latius se tamen aperiente materia plus quam imponebatur oneris sponte suscepi, simul ut pleniore obsequio demererer amantissimos..."Liber III
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...excogitabantur. In capita singula servorum ac liberorum tributum imponebatur; columnaria, ostiaria, frumentum, milites, arma, remiges, tormenta, vecturae imperabantur..."de Bello Africo
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...quaeque prima legio venerat, in naves longas imponebatur, equites autem in onerarias. Ita maiorem partem navium antecedere iussit..."