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exercent

exercent is a Latin form of exerceo, meaning “exercise, train, drill; employ, keep busy; practice; harass”. It is the 3rd person plural present active indicative.

Found 46 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Caesar, De Bello Gallico 6.28.3: Hoc se labore durant adulescentes atque hoc genere venationis exercent, et qui plurimos ex his interfecerunt, relatis in publicum cornibus, quae sint testimonio, magnam ferunt laudem.

Vergil, Aeneid 3.281: Exercent patrias oleo labente palaestras

Plautus, Mostellaria 4.1.862: exércent sese ad cúrsuram, fugiunt sed eí si reprehensí sunt,

All forms of exerceo (conjugation table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.