abreptum
Dictionary entries
- Entry →abripio, abripere, abripui, abreptus:
Verb · 3rd conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
drag/snatch/carry/remove away by force; wash/blow away (storm); abduct, kidnap;
acc. sg. perf. pass. part.acc. sg. perf. pass. part.acc. sg.nom. sg. perf. pass. part.voc. sg. perf. pass. part.
Examples
Menaechmi
Titus Maccius Plautus
"...rapiat videt; nam si amabas, iam oportebat nasum abreptum mordicus. 194-195 MEN. Sustine hoc, Penicule: exuvias facere..."Satura XIII
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...nullane peiuri capitis fraudisque nefandae poena erit?' abreptum crede hunc grauiore catena protinus et nostro (quid plus uelit..."Liber IX
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from EPISTULAE MORALES AD LUCILIUM
"...verum sit quidquid illo freti turbine abreptum est per multa milia trahi conditum et circa Tauromenitanum litus emergere..."
Liber Duodecimus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...corpora; per superos magnumque Menoecea iuro.' dixit, et abreptum comites in tecta ferebant. flebilis interea uacuis comitatus..."Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...quem subiisse umeris confectum aetate parentem! non potui abreptum divellere corpus et undis spargere? non socios, non ipsum..."