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poscit

poscit is a Latin form of posco, meaning “demand, ask for”. It is the 3rd person singular present active indicative.

Found 138 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, Pro S. Roscio Amerino 13: … m iudicium cum praesidio venit ne hic ibidem ante oculos vestros trucidetur; denique accusant ei quos populus poscit, causam dicit is qui unus relictus ex illorum nefaria caede restat.

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 2.3.2: Poscit controversias plures; electionem auditoribus permittit, saepe etiam partes; surgit amicitur incipit; statim omnia ac paene pariter ad manum, sensus reconditi occursant, verba - sed qualia! - quaesita et exculta. Multa lectio in subitis, multa scriptio elucet.

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.