ponebatur
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. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Capitula
Aulus Gellius
"...nitidiore cultu atque victu dicebatur, eaque in vitio ponebatur. III. Qualis quantaque sit "pro" particulae varietas; deque exemplis..."Liber XI
Aulus Gellius
"...nitidiore cultu atque victu dicebatur, eaque in vitio ponebatur. I. "Elegans" homo non dicebatur cum laude..."Alcibiades
Cornelius Nepos
"...apud Lacedaemonios, quorum moribus summa virtus in patientia ponebatur, sic duritiae se dedisse, ut parsimonia victus atque cultus..."Libri XVII-XVIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...inciderat: alienigenatum sacra movebantur et inter argumenta superstitionis ponebatur quorundamanimalium abstinentia. Patre itaque meo rogante, qui non calumniam..."Liber IX
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Papirius diceretur, in quo tum summa rei bellicae ponebatur, dubium cuiquam erat. Sed nec in Samnium nuntium perferri..."