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pollicentur

pollicentur is a Latin form of polliceor, meaning “promise, offer”. It is the 3rd person plural present passive indicative.

Found 28 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 5.20.1: … egnum obtinuerat interfectusque erat a Cassivellauno, ipse fuga mortem vitaverat, legatos ad Caesarem mittunt pollicenturque sese ei dedituros atque imperata facturos;

Caesar, De Bello Civili 1.60: … iebus Illurgavonenses, qui flumen Hiberum attingunt, insequuntur Petit ab his omnibus, ut se frumento iuvent. Pollicentur atque omnibus undique conquisitis iumentis in castra deportant. Transit etiam cohors Illurgavonensis ad cum c …

Cicero, De Divinatione 1.132: … s aút insani aut quíbus egestas ímperat, quí sibi semitám non sapiunt, álteri monstránt viam; quíbus divitias póllicentur, áb iis drachumam ipsí petunt. de hÍs divitiis síbi deducant dráchmam, reddant cétera. atque haec quidem Enni …

All forms of polliceor (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.