tollebat
Dictionary entries
- Entry →tollo, tollere, sustuli, sublatus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
lift, raise; destroy; remove, steal; take/lift up/away;
sg. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- G
SATIRICON LIBER
Gaius Petronius Arbiter (Petronius)
"...tetigit; illae viscatis inligatae viminibus deferebantur ad manus. Tollebat plumas aura volitantes, pinnasque per maria inanis spuma torquebat..." 
Liber Octavus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...gelidis iam nomen inerrat faucibus. exclamant famulae, tollebat in ora uirgo manus, tenuit saeuus pudor; attamen ire cogitur..."- P
Metamorphoses V
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Dorylas, quo non possederat alter latius aut totidem tollebat turis acervos. huius in obliquo missum stetit inguine ferrum..."