persta
Dictionary entries
- Entry →persto, perstare, perstiti, perstatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
stand firm; last, endure; persevere, persist in;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
- L
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...pereas, libet. Nutrix Quam multa sint timenda, si perstas, uide: nemo potentes aggredi tutus potest. Iason O dura..." 
Liber Septimus
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...vittis cernam feralibus Hellen. si tamen his aliter perstas non cedere terris teque pudor cassi reditus movet..."
Liber Septimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...dolor) et uestros etiamnum excuso furores. quodsi adeo perstas, ultro tibi, saeue, triumphum detulimus: religa captas in terga..."- P
Ars Amatoria I
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...Dura tamen molli saxa cavantur aqua. Penelopen ipsam, persta modo, tempore vinces: Capta vides sero Pergama, capta tamen..." - Q
Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...domum atque pelliculam curare iube; fi cognitor ipse, persta atque obdura: seu rubra Canicula findet infantis statuas..." - T
Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...legatos frustrareris nos; praesens quoque in eadem perstas impudentia. Quinque et uiginti talenta tyrannidem tuam exhaurient? Quingenta ergo..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...omnibus maior, nisi maximi fuerint, quibus maior est. Persta, Caesar, in ista ratione propositi, talesque nos crede, qualis..."