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
- T
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..." - M
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..."