ponebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →pono, ponere, posivi, postus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Age:
- Early
put, place, set; station; (archaic form of perf. of pono);; put/place/set; station/post (troops); pitch (camp); situate; set up; erect;; specify, put down; cite/quote; locate; depict; classify; assume/suppose; bury;; lay (foundation/keel); found (town), build; plant (trees); provide/serve;; put/lay down (load/arms), take off (clothes); shed (leaves); cut (nails);; esteem/value/count; impose; ordain; lend, put out, offer, wager; rid/drop;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Satura XI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...uenientis et hasta pendentisque dei perituro ostenderet hosti. ponebant igitur Tusco farrata catino: argenti quod erat solis fulgebat..."Liber VII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...exercitus, in conspectu fereque e regione castris castra ponebant dispositis exploratoribus, necubi effecto ponte Romani copias traducerent. Erat..."Liber V
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...fortuna deserebantur, tamen omnem spem salutis in virtute ponebant, et quotiens quaeque cohors procurrerat, ab ea parte magnus..."Liber XL
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...quicquam praebuerunt speciem, quia plus in Demetrio spei ponebant; deinde crescente in dies Philippi odio in Romanos..."Liber XXXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...primo pauidi nihil usquam spei nisi in fuga ponebant; deinde postquam resedit terror et prodi et deseri..."Liber XXVI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...urbis Romanae nullo prohibente se peruenisse in gloria ponebant, ita pigebat inriti incepti, pudebatque adeo se spretos..."Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...senatus consulesque nusquam alibi spem quam in armis ponebant, plebes omnia quam bellum malebat. Sp. Nautius..."
