superstantium
Dictionary entries
- Entry →supersto, superstare, supersteti, -:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
stand on top (of) (w/DAT/ABL); stand over (someone prostrate or recumbent);
gen. pl. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber VI
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from QUAESTIONES NATURALES
"...recedere pelagus infernum: quorum neutrum fit sine motu superstantium. [8,1] Non quidem existimo diu te haesitaturum..."Liber XXXVII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...appropinquare non ausae naues, ne sub ictu superstantium rupibus piratarum essent, diem triuere. tandem sub noctem uano incepto..."Liber X
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...posset. Forte quodam loco male densatus agger pondere superstantium in fossam procubuit atque ea, cum deos pandere viam..."Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...contra validi asseres et incussae trabes perfregere multa superstantium pernicie. pugnatumque in perculsos subita et prospera eruptione; simul..."