permittebatur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →permitto, permittere, permisi, permissus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
let through; let go through; relinquish; permit, allow; entrust; hurl;
sg. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber XIII
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...civitati Syracusanorum egredi numerum edendis gladiatoribus finitum permittebatur, nisi Paetus Thrasea contra dixisset praebuissetque materiem obtrectatoribus arguendae sententiae..."Liber V
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...venire advocationes et emi vetabantur; peractis tamen negotiis permittebatur pecuniam dumtaxat decem milium dare. Hoc facto Nepotis commotus..."