praevalebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →praevaleo, praevalere, praevalui, -:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
prevail; have superior power/force/weight/influence/worth/efficacy (medicine);
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...visa, patentibus circum campis ad pugnam equestrem, qua praevalebant: simul coloniam copiis validam auferre Vitellio in rem famamque..."Liber III
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...senatus gravitate censoria. Ita saepius digni quam gratiosi praevalebant. Quae nunc immodico favore corrupta ad tacita suffragia quasi..."