minantibus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →mino, minare, minavi, minatus:
Verb · 1st conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Lewis & Short
- Age:
- Late
drive (animals); impel, push, force; threaten?;
abl. pl. pres. act. part.dat. pl. pres. act. part.
Examples
Liber II
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...fortasse erunt; non maria emetienda: fortasse etiam uentis minantibus solues. Vis reddere beneficium? benigne accipe; rettulisti gratiam..."V
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...specus, quem tota circumfusi vastitas maris et undique minantibus scopulis illisa tempestas terrore ruiturae molis everberat. Horrent cuncta..."Liber I
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...quis iussit?" insigni animo ad coercendam militarem licentiam, minantibus intrepidus, adversus blandientis incorruptus. Haud dubiae iam in castris..."