prosterneret
Dictionary entries
- Entry →prosterno, prosternere, prostravi, prostratus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
knock over, lay low; strike down, overthrow; exhaust; debase/demean; prostrate;
sg. imperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber XV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...familiari oraret, deprecabundus et genibus principis accidens prosterneret incautum premeretque, animi validus et corpore ingens; tum iacentem..."Dialogus de Oratoribus
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from Minor Works
"...laudatione eorum digressus detrectaret poetas atque carminum studium prosterneret) arte quadam mitigavit, concedendo iis, qui causas agere..."