probaverat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →probo, probare, probavi, probatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
approve (of), esteem/commend/recommend/certify; give assent/approval/sanction;; let; show to be real/true; examine/test/try/prove/demonstrate; get accepted;
sg. pluperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- M
VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...interesse, quem occideret. hoc, si et alter perisset, probaverat utrumque fuisse periturum; cum convaluerit, probat utrumque victurum..." - P
Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Praebuerat dictis Tritonia talibus aures carminaque Aonidum iustamque probaverat iram; tum secum: 'laudare parum est, laudemur et ipsae..." - G
de Bello Africo
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...pecuniam imperatam numeraverat, et quod ipse suam causam probaverat Caesari, se a Nasidi classe captum, cum ad necem..."