poscere

poscere is a Latin form of posco, meaning “demand, ask for”. It is the present active infinitive.

Found 74 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 1.31.12: … uod proelium factum sit ad Magetobrigam, superbe et crudeliter imperare, obsides nobilissimi cuiusque liberos poscere et in eos omnia exempla cruciatusque edere, si qua res non ad nutum aut ad voluntatem eius facta sit.

Vergil, Aeneid 6.45: Ventum erat ad limen, cum virgo. Poscere fata

Plautus, Aulularia 2.1.160: eam sí iubes, fratér, tibi me póscere, poscam.

All forms of posco (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.