luente
Dictionary entries
- Entry →luo, luere, lui, lutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
pay; pay fine, compensate/atone; [poenam ~ => suffer punishment as expiation];; atone, make amends for, expiate; compensate; liberate/set free; redeem (debt);; fulfill (promise), make good; discharge (debt); avert (trouble) by expiation;; wash, lave; cleanse, purge (L+S);
abl. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...nefas a me quoque absit; quod scelus miseri luent? scelus est Iason genitor et maius scelus Medea mater..."Liber XXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Atrius Umber et ceteri nefariae seditionis auctores sanguine luent quod admiserunt. uobis supplicii eorum spectaculum non modo..."