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..."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..."
