tollebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tollo, tollere, sustuli, sublatus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
lift, raise; destroy; remove, steal; take/lift up/away;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber V
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...concreta videbant posterius claro in terra splendere colore, tollebant nitido capti levique lepore, et simili formata videbant esse..."Liber IV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from INSTITUTIONES
"...excitare Antonium conabantur, nomen inclamabant, frustra a cervicibus tollebant, blandius alia ad aurem invocabat, vehementius etiam nonnulla, feriebat..."