potitus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →potior, poti, potitus sum:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
obtain, acquire; grasp; attain, reach (goal); come by (experiences);; seize, capture; control; have/possess; reign over; win sexually;; be/become master of (w/GEN/ABL), get possession/submission/hold of;
nom. sg. perf. part. - Entry →potior, potiri, potitus sum:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
obtain, acquire; grasp; attain, reach (goal); come by (experiences);; seize, capture; control; have/possess; reign over; win sexually;; be/become master of (w/GEN/ABL), get possession/submission/hold of;
nom. sg. perf. part.
Examples
- T
Pseudolus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...viginti minas, si ille hodie illa sit potitus muliere sive eam tuo gnato hodie, ut promisit, dabit, [roga..." - T
Captivi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...nullum periculum est. nam postquam meus rex est potitus hostium— ita nunc belligerant Aetoli cum Aleis; nam Aetolia..." - P
Phormio
Publius Terentius Afer (Terence)
"...cupidum eo inpulisset, quod mihi principiumst mali! non potitus essem: f sset tum illos mi aegre aliquot dies..." - M
Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...saecula rupisspiritus ingessit uati; tandemque potitus 165pectore Cirrhaeo non umquam plenior artusPhoebados inrupit Paean mentemque prioremexpulit atque hominem..." - A
Liber VII
Aulus Gellius
"...omnem illam postea librorum copiam Xerxes Athenarum potitus urbe ipsa praeter arcem incensa abstulit asportavitque in Persas..." - A
Liber III
Aulus Gellius
"...equum illum nobilem Cassii requisisse et, cum eo potitus esset, ipsum quoque postea victum atque desertum detestabili exitio..." - C
Timoleon
Cornelius Nepos
"...decedere. Interim Dione Syracusis interfecto Dionysius rursus Syracusarum potitus est. Cuius adversarii opem a Corinthiis petierunt ducemque..." - T
Rudens
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...argentum daturum eodem die, viduli ubi sis potitus. LABR. Fiat. GRIP. Venus Cyrenensis, testem te testor mihi..."
