spondeat
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. subj. 3rd
Examples
Aeneid V
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...fatur: 'magnanime Aenea, non, si mihi Iuppiter auctor spondeat, hoc sperem Italiam contingere caelo. mutati transversa fremunt..."Liber V
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...illis est, capere Veios licet. Quis est qui spondeat eundem, si differtur bellum, animum postea fore..."