perdebant
Dictionary entries
- Entry →perdo, perdere, perdidi, perditus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation
- Frequency:
- Very Frequent
ruin, destroy; lose; waste;
pl. imperf. act. ind. 3rd
Examples
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..."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..."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..."