minuebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →minuo, minuere, minui, minutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
lessen, reduce, diminish, impair, abate;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
Eumenes
Cornelius Nepos
"...exiles res animi magnitudinem, etsi non frangebant, tamen minuebant. Hunc persequens Antigonus, dum omni genere copiarum abundaret, saepe..."de Bello Alexandrino
Gaius Julius Caesar from LIBRI INCERTORUM AUCTORUM
"...amorem, paulatim tamen et occulte militarem disciplinam severitatemque minuebant. Cassius legionibus in hiberna dispositis ad ius dicendum Cordubam..."