prosterni
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;
pres. pass. infin.
Examples
- P
Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...Montanus ut spem caperet Helvidius posse etiam Marcellum prosterni. igitur a laude Cluvii Rufi orsus, qui perinde dives..." - G
Panegyricus
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger)
"...adversi cadat, tuis laudibus, tuisque virtutibus materiem campumque prosterni, quum secunda felices, adversa magnos probent? Percrebuerat antiquitus, urbem..."