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
Liber VI
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...oportebit, et ipsorum improbitatem retundendo, et iudices vel praesidentis magistratus appellando frequentius ut loquendi vices serventur..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...contra Spartaco [impetum dissuadente]. Incidere in colonos Abellanos praesidentis agros suos. . . . ne, qua [ratione vagarentur] ad id temporis..."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..."