solvebantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →solvo, solvere, solvi, solutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
loosen, release, unbind, untie, free; open; set sail; scatter; pay off/back;
pl. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- P
Liber XVI
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...legionibus, ex quibus aetate aut valetudine fessi sacramento solvebantur. cladem Lugdunensem quadragies sestertio solatus est princeps, ut amissa..." - P
Liber II
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...valetudine detentus, ubi recreatum accepit votaque pro incolumitate solvebantur, admotas hostias, sacrificalem apparatum, festam Antiochensium plebem per lictores..."