optinebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →optineo, optinere, optinui, optentus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
get hold of; maintain; obtain; hold fast, occupy; prevail;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber I
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI III DE BELLO CIVILI
"...Vettonum agrum Lusitaniamque pari numero legionum optinebat, officia inter se partiuntur, uti Petreius ex Lusitania per Vettones..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...falsi nuntiarent. Certum erat Spurinnae (is enim Placentiam optinebat) necdum venisse Caecinam et, si propinquaret, coercere intra munimenta..."
