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
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..."Liber XXXVIII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...immixtis strata litora sunt, funda mare apertum incessentes exercebantur. Itaque longius certiusque et ualidiore ictu quam Baliaris funditor..."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..."