posuistis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →pono, ponere, posui, positus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
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. perf. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
Liber IX
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...torrente plaga, dubiis hinc Syrtibus orbem abrumpens medio posuisti limite mortes. per secreta tui bellum ciuile recessus uadit..."Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...Quomodo, inquis, de terrarum motu quaestionem eo posuisti loco, quo de tonitruis fulgoribusque dicturus? Quia, cum motus terrae..."Liber Secundus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...sint, ait optime iudicari. haec et tu ita posuisti, et verba vestra sunt. quam multa vitiosa! summum enim..."Metamorphoses XII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...fratris longe gratissime natis, inrita qui mecum posuisti moenia Troiae, ecquid, ubi has iamiam casuras adspicis arces, ingemis..."Metamorphoses III
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...longa per aequora vecti hac Tyron, hac profugos posuistis sede penates, nunc sinitis sine Marte capi? vosne, acrior..."BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...regnum armis tenet, me, quem vos imperatorem Numidis posuistis, clausum obsidet; legatorum verba quanti fecerit, pericula mea declarant..."
