ostentabatur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →ostento, ostentare, ostentavi, ostentatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
show, display; point out, declare; disclose, hold out (prospect);
sg. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber VI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...aedificando occupata contiones suas frequentare legibus agrariis conabantur. Ostentabatur in spem Pomptinus ager, tum primum post accisas..."Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...quando insolescerent Suebi quasi rediturus in regnum ostentabatur: sed non excessit Italia per duodeviginti annos consenuitque multum imminuta..."