reposcat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →reposco, reposcere, -, -:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Lesser
demand back; claim as one's due;
sg. pres. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Liber VIII
Marcus Valerius Martialis (Martial)
"...pertinaci sensuro bona liberalitatis, captet forsitan aut uicem reposcat: at si quis dare nomini relicto post manes tumulumque..."- G
Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...nostras, oramus, cave despuas, ocelle, ne poenas Nemesis reposcat a te. est vehemens dea: laedere hanc caveto..."