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prosunt

prosunt is a Latin form of prosum, meaning “be useful, benefit”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 85 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In Catilinam 3.27: … egi, illi hostis aut interfectos aut oppressos reliquerunt, vestrum est, Quirites, si ceteris facta sua recte prosunt, mihi mea ne quando obsint providere. mentes enim hominum audacissimorum sceleratae ac nefariae ne vobis noce …

Ovid, Amores 1.6.30: Prosunt; in media pace quid arma times?

All forms of prosum (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.