redimebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →redimo, redimere, redemi, redemptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
buy back, recover, replace by purchase; buy up; make good, fulfill (promise);; redeem; atone for; ransom; rescue/save; contract for; buy/purchase; buy off;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
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Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...beneficium, quod numquam reciperet, et, cum amicum, quem redimebat, habiturus non esset, nihil aliud emit quam honestae mortis..."BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...abstractus est. Sed Iugurtha primo tantummodo belli moram redimebat, existimans sese aliquid interim Romae pretio aut gratia effecturum..."