spopondit
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. perf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber IV
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...quam accipere. Denique nihil illi iam liberi est, spopondit; minus autem turpe est creditori quam spei bonae decoquere..."Hercules [Oetaeus]
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...astra torsi: semper haec nobis manus uotum spopondit; nulla propter me sacro micuere caelo fulmina—hic aliquid dies..."VIII
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...causas quidem se dixit ignorare morborum, sed salutem spopondit unius, si licuisset alterum occidere, lacerare, perspicere..."