deprimebantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →deprimo, deprimere, depressi, depressus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
suppress/repress/depress/silence, force//weigh/keep down, disparage; sink;; humble, reduce position/fortune/value; lower pitch (sound)/brightness (color);
pl. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
Liber X
Aulus Gellius
"...simul et incerto onere, cum pavor corpora agitaverat, deprimebantur." XXVII. Historia de populo Romano deque populo Poenico, quod..."FRAGMENTA HISTORIARUM
Gaius Sallustius Crispus (Sallust)
"...simul et incerto onere, cum pavor corpora agitaverat, deprimebantur. Cum Sertorius neque erumpere tam levi copia navibus. More..."