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
- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...factis. Tres interim iatraliptae in conspectu eius Falernum potabant, et cum plurimum rixantes effunderent, Trimalchio hoc suum propinasse..." - T
Liber XXV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...turribus epulati aut sopiti uino erant aut semigraues potabant; paucos tamen eorum oppressos in cubilibus interfecerunt. prope Hexapylon..."