adoriuntur
Dictionary entries
- Entry →adorio, adorire, -, adoritus:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Transitive
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Military
assail/assault/attack, rise against (military/political/plague); accost/address;; improperly influence; undertake/try/attempt/come to grips; begin/set to work;
pl. pres. pass. ind. 3rd - Entry →adorior, adoriri, adortus sum:
Verb · 4th conjugation · Deponent
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Military
assail/assault/attack, rise against (military/political/plague); accost/address;; improperly influence; undertake/try/attempt/come to grips; begin/set to work;
pl. pres. ind. 3rd
Examples
Hannibal
Cornelius Nepos
"...concursu Bithynii Hannibalis praecepto universi navem Eumenis adoriuntur. Quorum vim rex cum sustinere non posset, fuga salutem petit..."Datames
Cornelius Nepos
"...fecisse, ut recepti maiori essent calamitati. Primum eos adoriuntur. Illi cum, quid ageretur aut quare fieret, ignorarent, coacti..."Liber VIII
Gaius Julius Caesar from COMMENTARIORUM LIBRI VII DE BELLO GALLICOCUM A. HIRTI SUPPLEMENTO
"...frumenti comparant, nonnumquam autem expeditionibus nocturnis castella nostrorum adoriuntur. Quam ob causam Gaius Caninius toto oppido munitiones circumdare..."Liber XXII
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...passim inter aceruos caesorum corporum strata erant, auersam adoriuntur Romanam aciem, tergaque ferientes ac poplites caedentes stragem ingentem..."Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...subsidio, pars Romanos toto impetu intentos in castra adoriuntur. Paulisper aversi turbatique sunt; deinde et ipsi utroque versis..."Liber XIV
Publius Cornelius Tacitus from ANNALES
"...Nero ad deteriores inclinabat. hi variis criminationibus Senecam adoriuntur, tamquam ingentes et privatum modum evectas opes adhuc augeret..."