spopondisset
Dictionary entries
- Entry →spondeo, spondere, spopondi, 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. pluperf. act. subj. 3rd
Examples
Otho
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (Suetonius) from DE VITIS CAESARUM
"...mathematici. Qui cum eum olim superstitem Neroni fore spopondisset, tunc ultro inopinatus advenerat, imperaturum quoque brevi repromittens. Nullo..."Liber XLV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...docuit, Attalus erat, qui, quantum spes spopondisset, cuperent, ni unius amici prudens monitio uelut frenos animo eius gestienti..."Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Tullium nomine increpans rogitansque sicine pugnaturos milites spopondisset? Ubi illi clamores sint arma poscentium, ubi minae iniussu imperatoris..."