prosternis
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. pres. act. ind. 2nd
Examples
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..."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..."