perdebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →perdo, perdere, perdidi, perditus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
ruin, destroy; lose; waste;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
- T
Liber VI
Titus Lucretius Carus (Lucretius) from DE RERVM NATVRA LIBRI SEX
"...nulli pedibusque manebant in vita tamen et perdebant lumina partim. usque adeo mortis metus iis incesserat acer. atque..." - L
Liber III
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from DE BENEFICIIS
"...tantum res repetierunt, beneficia magno animo dabant, magno perdebant; excepta Macedonum gente non est in ulla data aduersus..." - M
XV
Marcus Fabius Quintilianus (Quintilian) from DECLAMATIONES MAIORES
"...consilia, sed ista vincebat, et vires amoris impedimenta perdebant, donec intellegeret hominem, qui explicari ratione non poterat, necessitate..."