obversabantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →obversor, obversari, obversatus sum:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Lesser
appear before one; go to and fro publicly;
pl. imperf. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...praemia perfidiae reptuavit simulque immensa pecunia et potentia obversabantur, cessit fas et salus patroni et acceptae libertatis memoria..."Liber VI
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...gravior et sonantior erat, ab iis qui limini obversabantur audiebatur. Sed area ex qua diaeta adibatur..."Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...proxima comperendinatione respondere debebam. Sedebant iudices, decemviri venerant, obversabantur advocati, silentium longum; tandem a praetore nuntius. Dimittuntur centumviri..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...nunc se ad clarissimorum civium strages caedesque proferret. Obversabantur foribus horror et minae, et par metus admissis..."