prosternet
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. fut. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber V
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...licet maritorum. Callidus effracta nummos fur auferet arca, prosternet patrios impia flamma lares; debitor usuram pariter sortemque negabit..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...sole sub ardenti flaventia demetit arua, Troiugenum infesto prosternet corpora ferro. currite ducentes subtegmina, currite, fusi. testis erit..."