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
- M
IX
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..." - G
BELLUM IUGURTHINUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...abstractus est. Sed Iugurtha primo tantummodo belli moram redimebat, existimans sese aliquid interim Romae pretio aut gratia effecturum..."