sponde
Dictionary entries
- Entry →spondeo, spondere, spepondi, sponsus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation · Intransitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Government
promise, give pledge/undertaking/surety; contract to give/take in marriage;
sg. pres. act. imp. 2nd
Examples
Liber Tertius
Gaius Valerius Flaccus from ARGONAVTICA
"...moras et foedera necte consiliis atque arte tua. sponde adfore reges dis genitos, quis arma volens, quis agmina..."- P
Aeneid IX
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...animum patriae strinxit pietatis imago. tum sic effatur: 'sponde digna tuis ingentibus omnia coeptis. namque erit ista mihi..."