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petiverunt

petiverunt is a Latin form of peto, meaning “seek, ask for; make for, head for; attack, aim at; stand for (office)”. It is the 3rd person plural perfect active indicative.

Found 35 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 4.27.4: tum proelio facto remiserunt et in petenda pace eius rei culpam in multitudinem contulerunt et propter imprudentiam ut ignosceretur petiverunt.

Apuleius, Apologia 71: … en miror quod Aemilianus et Rufinus id iudicium mulieris aegre ferant, cum hi, qui Pudentillam in matrimonium petiuerunt, aequo animo patiantur me sibi praelatum. quod quidem illa ut faceret, filio suo potius quam animo obsecuta e …

All forms of peto (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.