prostratum
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;
acc. sg. perf. pass. part.acc. sg. perf. pass. part.acc. sg.nom. sg. perf. pass. part.voc. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...atque omnis accedere ad aras nec procumbere humi prostratum et pandere palmas ante deum delubra nec aras sanguine..."de Spectaculis
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial) from EPIGRAMMATON LIBRI
"...satis est, Caesar, seruit et ipsa Venus. VIb Prostratum uasta Nemees in ualle leonem nobile et Herculeum fama..."Gaius
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...Murmillonem e ludo rudibus secum battuentem et sponte prostratum confodit ferrea sica ac more victorum cum palma discucurrit..."
Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...exigebat stili facilitatem leo mansuetus, quem in amphitheatro prostratum frigidum erat sacratissimo Imperatori, ni statim traderem. ad Vrsum..."Liber XXXIV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...turris quodque circa muri erat casu eius prostratum; et Romani simul a portu, unde aditus planior erat..."