prompte
Dictionary entries
- Entry →promo, promere, prompsi, promptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
take/bring out/forth; bring into view; bring out/display on the stage;
voc. sg. perf. pass. part. - Entry →promptus, prompta -um, promptior -or -us, promptissimus -a -um:
Adjective · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Frequent
set forth, brought forward, manifest, disclosed; willing, ready, eager, quick;
voc. sg. (m.) - Entry →prompte, promptius, promptissime:
Adverb
- Frequency:
- Lesser
so as to be ready at hand; readily, willingly, unhesitatingly, fluently;
Examples
Miles Gloriosus
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...post sagina ego eiciar cellaria, ut tibi, si promptes, alium subpromum pares. Pal. Non edepol faciam. age eloquere..."Liber VIII
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...deficiat. Omnia quae facienda erunt audaciter faciet et prompte. Hoc enim stultitiae proprium quis dixerit, ignave et contumaciter..."Liber XXXI
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...arma signaque non ante uisa animique militum tam prompte succedentium muros terruere; itaque fuga extemplo in arcem facta..."Liber XVI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...vulneribus adversis tamquam in pugna caderet. Haud minus prompte L. Vetus socrusque eius Sextia et Pollitta filia necem..."Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...educatus erat, ad omnem claritudinem sublatus imperium invaderet, prompte daturis, qui a coniuratione integri essent quique miserarentur Neronem..."Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...iactata super id quod nullo auctore certo firmantur prompte refutaveris. quis enim mediocri prudentia, nedum Tiberius tantis rebus..."
