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
- G
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..." - T
Liber XLV
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...docuit, Attalus erat, qui, quantum spes spopondisset, cuperent, ni unius amici prudens monitio uelut frenos animo eius gestienti..." - T
Liber VII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...Tullium nomine increpans rogitansque sicine pugnaturos milites spopondisset? Ubi illi clamores sint arma poscentium, ubi minae iniussu imperatoris..."