minuebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →minuo, minuere, minui, minutus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
lessen, reduce, diminish, impair, abate;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- C
Eumenes
Cornelius Nepos
"...exiles res animi magnitudinem, etsi non frangebant, tamen minuebant. Hunc persequens Antigonus, dum omni genere copiarum abundaret, saepe..." - G
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..."