oportuisset
Dictionary entries
- Entry →oporteo, oportere, oportui, oportuitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Uncommon
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
require (to be done), order;; it is right/proper/necessary; it is becoming; it behooves; ought;
sg. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...esse tractatum an "gradus eliminat" in tragoedia dici oportuisset. At veteres ne "expectorat" quidem timuerunt, et sane eiusdem..."Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...virum nobilem interfectum quia id fieri oportuisset fateretur? Ergo et illi captavit ex ipsa praestantia animi favorem..."Liber VIII
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...libertos morte multaret, cum relegante numerari. Nam si oportuisset dividi sententiam unius, quia res duas comprehendebat, non reperiebam..."