prosternit
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. 3rd
Examples
Liber VII
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...ignauas gentes famosaque regnaet primo ferri motu prosternite mundum;sitque palam, quas tot duxit Pompeius in urbemcurribus, unius..."Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...infelix manibusque excepta suorumfertur ad aequoreas, ac se prosternit, harenas, 800litoraque ipsa tenet, tandemque inlata carinaest.non sic infelix..."ad Helviam
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE CONSOLATIONE
"...semper expectat. Nam et hostium aduentus eos prosternit quos inopinantis occupauit: at qui futuro se bello ante bellum..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...misera uirtus!) summus Alcidae dies nullum malum prosternit; inpendo, ei mihi, in nulla uitam facta. pro mundi arbiter..."XII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...opus nobiles manus mittit, haec alienis pedibus mendicantes prosternit, haec saepe sociorum fidem fregit, haec venena populis publice..."
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...arcana glaucos exutus amictus huc illuc fragili prosternit pectora musco, aut ingens in stagna cadit vitreasque natatu plaudit..."Liber V
Gaius Phaedrus from FABVLARVM AESOPIARVM LIBRI QVINQVE
"...repeti iubet.Iteratur illud. Homo meus se in pulpitototum prosternit. Plaudit inludens eques;rogare populus hunc choro ueniam aestimat.Vt..."Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...fertur et Hippalmon Pelagonaque, dextra tuentes cornua, prosternit: socii rapuere iacentes; at non letiferos effugit Enaesimus ictus Hippocoonte..."