abriperes
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;
sg. imperf. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from THEBAID
"...squalida passu inlabi thalamis, animasque a stirpe recentes abripere altricum gremiis morsuque cruento deuesci et multum patrio pinguescere..."Appendix Perottina
Gaius Phaedrus
"...nomen dei,illi qui iactant se uerborum copia),abripere morsu fertur testiculos sibi,quia propter illos sentiat sese..."Liber III
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from HISTORIAE
"...ceteri, ut cuique ingenium, spoliare, capere, arma equosque abripere. et exciti prospero clamore, qui modo per agros fuga..."