possideam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →possideo, possidere, possedi, possessus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
seize, hold, be master of; possess, take/hold possession of, occupy; inherit;
sg. pres. act. subj. 1st
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...forsitan, inquit, quaeris quare solus Corinthea vera possideam: quia scilicet aerarius, a quo emo, Corinthus vocatur. Quid..."Sermones II
Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace) from Sermones
"...aequore verris. segnis ego, indignus qui tantum possideam; aufer, sume tibi deciens; tibi tantundem; tibi triplex, unde uxor..."