profuerint
Dictionary entries
- Entry →prosum, prodesse, profui, profuturus:
Verb · Compounds Of To Be
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
be useful, be advantageous, benefit, profit (with DAT);
pl. futperf. act. ind. 3rdpl. perf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber XIX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...tibi dabo quibus vitia non nocuerint, quosdam quibus profuerint. Dabo, inquam, maximae famae et inter admiranda propositos, quos..."Liber VII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...ante actae vitae integritas numquam non plurimum profuerint. Si nihil obicietur, patronus quidem in hoc vehementer incumbet, accusator..."Ars Amatoria II
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Ars Amatoria
"...modo servari carmine posset amor. Nec data profuerint pallentia philtra puellis: Philtra nocent animis, vimque furoris habent..."Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...iniuriarum metum, et accusandi necessitatem remisisti. Nam si profuerint, quibus gratias egerint, de nullo queri cogentur. Et alioqui..."