exercebantur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →exerceo, exercere, exercui, exercitus:
Verb · 2nd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
exercise, train, drill, practice; enforce, administer; cultivate;
pl. imperf. pass. ind. 3rd
Examples
- M
Liber Quartus
Marcus Tullius Cicero from De Finibus
"...iuris aut nominis controversiam. Ergo in utroque exercebantur, eaque disciplina effecit tantam illorum utroque in genere dicendi copiam..." - T
Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...immixtis strata litora sunt, funda mare apertum incessentes exercebantur. Itaque longius certiusque et ualidiore ictu quam Baliaris funditor..." - P
Liber IV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...agrestis modicis principiis, iam per arma atque acies exercebantur; nam populus Oeensis multitudine inferior Garamantas exciverat, gentem indomitam..."