praesidentis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →praesideo, praesidere, praesedi, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Taking Dative
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
keep/watch/stand//guard (over); preside (over); supervise/govern/control;
gen. sg. pres. act. part.
Examples
- M
Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...oportebit, et ipsorum improbitatem retundendo, et iudices vel praesidentis magistratus appellando frequentius ut loquendi vices serventur..." - G
FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...contra Spartaco [impetum dissuadente]. Incidere in colonos Abellanos praesidentis agros suos. . . . ne, qua [ratione vagarentur] ad id temporis..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...tantum, sed pilorum signorumque honore circumdatum. Augebant maiestatem praesidentis, diversi postulantium habitus, ac dissonae voces, raraque sine interprete..."