potabant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →poto, potare, potavi, potus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
drink; drink heavily/convivially, tipple; swallow; absorb, soak up;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...factis. Tres interim iatraliptae in conspectu eius Falernum potabant, et cum plurimum rixantes effunderent, Trimalchio hoc suum propinasse..."Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...turribus epulati aut sopiti uino erant aut semigraues potabant; paucos tamen eorum oppressos in cubilibus interfecerunt. prope Hexapylon..."