luerunt
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;
pl. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- G
Appendix Perottina
Gaius Phaedrus
"...castae coniugis.Interea fanum qui compilarant Iouis,cruci suffixi luerunt poenas numini.Horum reliquias ne quis posset tollere,custodes dantur..." - T
Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...multo pars per fidem uiolati colloquii poenas morte luerunt. Romani ardentibus ira animis postero die omnibus copiis..." - G
Liber VI
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...provinciales ut socios ministrosque proconsulis plecti oporteret; poenas luerunt. Accusavi Marium Priscum, qui lege repetundarum damnatus utebatur clementia..."