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..."- G
Appendix Perottina
Gaius Phaedrus
"...nomen dei,illi qui iactant se uerborum copia),abripere morsu fertur testiculos sibi,quia propter illos sentiat sese..." - P
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..."