With a smile the martyr of study repeated a verse from Juvenal: Nec propter vitam vivendi perdere causas.
Or else submit, and kill life in the effort to save its worth--propter causas vivendi perdere vitam (which is absurd; for what is the worth of life if there is no life?
Quem Jupiter vult perdere dementat prius=--Him whom Jupiter wishes to ruin, he first infatuates.
Amicum perdere est damnorum maximum=--To lose a friend is the greatest of losses.
Fidem qui perdit perdere ultra nil potest=--He 55 who loses his honour has nothing else he can lose.
Though rashness can hope for but one result, We are heedless when fate draws nigh us, And the maxim holds good, "Quem perdere vult Deus, dementat prius.
Medea's remark to Jason in Ovid's Medea, "Servare potui, perdere an possim rogas?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "perdere" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
