prensando
Dictionary entries
- Entry →prenso, prensare, prensavi, prensatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
grasp/clutch at/constantly; lay hold of; accost/buttonhole; canvass, solicit;
abl. sg. fut. pass. part.abl. sg. fut. pass. part.dat. sg. fut. pass. part.dat. sg. fut. pass. part.
Examples
Liber XLV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...secundae legionis in Macedonia fuerat, priuatim imperatori inimicus, prensando ipse et per suae legionis milites sollicitando stimulauerat..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...infulas praeferentes, ubi agmen incesserat, arma genua vestigia prensando flexere militum animos; addidit Valens trecenos singulis militibus sestertios..."