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Minentur Verb: present passive subjunctive 3rd plural of mino

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mĭno, āvi, ātum, 1, v. a. and n., collat. form of minor (ante-class., acc. to Prisc. p. 799, but v. Lachm. ad Lucr. 6, 563.—From the application of the words minari and minae to the threatening cries of cattledrivers is doubtless derived the old rustic signif., also generally adopted in the post-class. per. into the literary lang.),
  • to drive animals: asinos et equum minantes baculis exigunt, Ap. Met. 3, 28, 15; asinum, id. ib. 8, 30, 16; me ut suam juvencam, Aus. Epigr. 67, 3: gregem ad interiora deserti, Vulg. Exod. 3, 1: per omnem mundum (so, vaccam), Schol. Juv. 6, 526: agasones equos agentes, id est minantes, Paul. ex Fest. s. v. agasones, p. 25 Müll.—Pass. transf.: cum a validis ventis minentur (naves), Vulg. Jac. 3, 4; id. Nah. 2, 7.—Of men: eos a tribunali, Vulg. Act. 18, 16.—Hence the Ital. menare; Fr. mener.

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