ponebas
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;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
Liber III
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...bene te noui, longum iam lassa libellum ponebas, totum nunc studiosa leges. Omnia quod scribis castis epigrammata uerbis..."Liber I
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...speculi potentiam? [5,9] Modo, inquit, inter argumenta ponebas semper arcum contra solem excitari, quia ne a speculo..."Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...quam pulchre dicere videbare, cum ex altera parte ponebas cumulatum aliquem plurimis et maximis voluptatibus nullo nec praesenti..."
